IDFuel, the industrial design weblog, which has an interesting
three-part series examining what designers can do about global
water shortages. Some fo these links will be familiar to
worldchanging readers, but I found interesting information here
about how designers can provide better irrigation, alternative
cooking methods, water purifiers, low-flow plumbing, and so on.
Cool stuff. Following one link out, I came upon this idea for a
Water Wall, a modular rainwater storage system. Now, this
certainly beats those ugly giant black plastic tanks, but
couldn't we do better? Couldn't rainwater storage tanks be
gracious elements of the landscape, like something designed by a
water-fixated James Turell (whose skyspace is shown at right)? I
vaguely remember hearing that fountains have been used to filter
and aerate water from cisterns -- anyone know more about this?
Anyone got cool links for water art with an ecological role, or
water systems with an artistic flair? hey from this article
http://www.worldchanging.com/