projects/projekte > Time Travel 2050 - Conceps for the future
PROJECT INTRODUCTION
__Objectives
__The Time Travel Method
__Changing Values
__Visionary Course
TIME TRAVEL WATER 2050
__Location
__Participants
__Implementation
SPHERE OF ACTION
__Overtures - Programme
ORGANISER
__Initiators – Project Partners
TOPIC WATER
__Status Quo
__Blue Gold
__Water Wars
__Object of Speculation__
PUBLIC RELATIONS
__Focus on Specific Target Groups
__Film: Accompaniment and
______Documentation
__Book: Objective and Documentation
PROJECT INFORMATIONEN as PDF
Time Travel Water 2050 is part of the transdisciplinary project series overtures
CONTACT
Project Management
artcircolo Art Project Ltd.
Dr. Serafine Lindemann
Parkstr. 22
D-80339 München
Tel.: +49 89 98 89 84
art@artcircolo.de
www.artcircolo.de
www.overtures.de
Organisation and PR in Norway
Karina Fürst
Authenticore
Oscarsgate 52
N-0258 Oslo
Tel.: +47 22 06 50 20
kf@authenticore.no
info@authenticore.no
www.authenticore.no
Status Quo - No Water, No Life!
Aqua est vita! (Water is life!) this fundamental law of existence, prevailing since before antiquity, has been taken too much for granted and has subsequently been suppressed again and again. Everybody is now asking questions about global responsibility with regard to the naturally limited supply of water.
Based on the fact that water is ranked number one on the list of life-giving treasures in our world, we can infer a far-reaching dictum: every person in every part of the world should have as a natural birth right free access to the wet element. We can hardly deny the fact that the situation is very different in reality, that far too many people on earth already suffer from an insufficient or even a contaminated water supply.
We seem to have reached that precarious point in the history of humanity, at which decisions have to be made about how increasingly scarce water resources will be distributed in the future and in particular who will have jurisdiction over them. There is still time to steer a course which is consistent with economic policy and one that also creates a positive, just, lasting and above all peaceful future with sufficient water reserves for the whole of humanity.
It is high time to begin research on the future opportunities of water in terms of geographical and socially differentiated conditions.
Blue Gold
Whether one takes the figurative or oral tradition of the original inhabitants, such as the Australian Aborigines, or goes through the texts of world religions, it is not surprising that most traditions speak of the sacredness of water. In antiquity, water was actually regarded as a sacred source to be used when consulting the oracle.
This almost religious respect for water as the ultimate elixir of life has been lost over the centuries. Even though the water supply situation on our planet has long since reached a state of high alert, the wider public has not yet registered the crisis, or at least does not seem to have.
While the general level of awareness about the increasing dangers of global warming has obviously risen in recent times, a certain segment of humanity, whose water is still flowing without any restrictions, has not yet acknowledged the second source of danger to ecological equilibrium on a worldwide scale. The limited water reserves of the earth are based on a highly sensitive regenerative cycle. Due to the rise in the world s population they can become very scarce and not only in the regions that have always suffered from drought.
Water Wars
People are already speaking about the fact that the wars of the 21st century will be fought over water - between neighbours, countries, continents and between rich and poor. The cities in which 50% of the world's population already live, in particular the so-called mega cities, have generated special problems with regard to the supply of water. It is not just the fact that millions of people create enormous problems regarding sewage disposal, but also that as a result of sealing the earth's surface in huge urban areas rainwater now mainly runs off into rivers and subsequently into the sea, no longer seeping into the earth to a sufficient degree that guarantees the preservation of the water table. Countdown: we have to pave the way now for a future that secures a water supply for everyone.
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While over a billion people nowadays no longer have access to clean drinking water, we, in the privileged First World, use, pollute and waste the groundwater reserves of our planet so casually and rapidly that nature and humanity could be seriously endanger in the foreseeable future.
At the same time, water has become a re-locatable commodity in our late capitalistic society, one that is exploited according to every trading rule on the global marketplace.
Since the Global Water Forum 2000 in The Hague water may now officially be traded as a commodity. Multinational companies have discovered the struggle for water resources as their future market and have thus taken over in great style the supply of water to financially weak communities in the Third World and to some extent in a Europe now ready for privatisation.
The business enterprise with bottled drinking has virtually exploded, and it is no coincidence that giant corporations are buying up more and more sources of water worldwide.
