Year of Water

Year of Water: A University-Wide Project Focused on Earth’s Most Precious Resource

the year of water is a campus-wide citywide initiative to focus on all aspects of water

the poetic the symbolic water inequity all the water issues that are facing the planet and to involve as many parts of the university as we can when I started asking who is working on water at

Columbia I was amazed water is an issue that's already taken up by so many parts the University Institute's centers schools working on issues of law legislation to change how water is

distributed issues of the cleanliness of water purity of water water and equity in places like Clinton now in Newark so Columbia just already is doing all that work how do you make all of that visible

to a general public and say Plumbing's not just theorizing not just doing the research plum is doing research this lady how do you make that visible and that's

in my mind would completely make sense isn't it artists have unique capacity to do that to really affect how people feel how their minds work but also how their

hearts open to these issues and that I believe really is how consciousness and change occur

“Columbia is not just theorizing, not just doing research on water. Columbia is doing research that’s leading to action. How do you make that visible?” said Columbia’s School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker, who is introducing the Year of Water, an interdisciplinary investigation of water in all of its social, political, cultural, economic and environmental complexities across the University.