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project brief
The class assignment was to choose a national
or international social issue that could be uni-
versally shared and individually articulated.
project goal
Water carries a host of connotations. Nations
hoard the riches of their rivers and reservoirs.
Irrigation canals branch across arid fi elds like
veins of economic lifeblood for millions of farm-
ers. The Nile nourishes crops with fertile soil
deposits. In 1970, the Egyptian government
dammed the river to secure more land for its bur-
geoning population. The twist of a valve brings
limitless gallons of water pouring through hos-
es, showers, and sinks. A few months of drought
turn suburban lawns a desiccated yellow. In
Africa, a child dies after only a few days without
water. An avalanche in the Rocky Mountains
buries a hiker in ice. A tsunami inundates Thai-
land with water, drowning thousands. In Hong
Kong, monsoons fl ood the streets with mud. An
oil spill in the Pacifi c poisons fi sh and dolphins.
Water rights create grudges, lawsuits, and wars.
Beyond its associations with politics, fear,
and death, water can also symbolize home and
life. Inside their mother’s womb, babies swim
and grow immersed in water. Water energizes,
relieves, cleanses, and feeds. During the sum-
mer, children run through sprinklers or fl ock to
water parks. Tourists travel from around the world
to gawk at Niagara Falls. A Christian is reborn
through the waters of baptism, and a grieving
family in India sprinkles cremated ashes on the
waters of the Ganges. The comfort, awe, and sanc-
tity of water runs alongside its tense politics and
cutthroat economics. Its changing signifi cance
and meanings continually circulate beneath soci-
ety, like the groundwater below the earth.
Brigham Young University (BYU)
Provo, Utah, USA
Water, Politics, and Hope
Class: Special Problems in Graphic Design
Level: Senior
Faculty: Linda Sullivan
Duration of Project: One Semester
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Student: Jon Troutman
Our view of the world is of-
ten a divided one. Rich. Poor.
Educated. Uneducated. Fa-
miliar. Foreign. Good. Bad.
Black. White. Us. Them. We
don’t see the human race as
a singular unit with inher-
ent, internal connections.
Rather, we focus on external
signifi ers and draw distorted
conclusions and judgments—
whether subconscious or
deliberate. Our skewed view
of each other is contrary to
God’s holistic view of us.
With a more holistic perspec-
tive, we might see humanity
as an equal organism that
lives, breathes, and stretches
throughout a host of unequal
environments.
Í Come Again
Another Day
Student: Jeremy Bowen
It is intriguing that in our
culture where there is abun-
dant access to clean water,
associations with rain are
largely negative. Rain is in-
convenient and depressing—
in other words, “bad weather.”
Movies, for example, con-
stantly use rain to communi-
cate sadness, loneliness, fear,
and even death. In this piece,
I’m bringing attention to
its beautiful, positive, and
life-giving qualities.
Í Advertising for
Water, Politics and Hope
Students: Keenan Cummings
and Jon Troutman
To promote the exhibit
“Water, Politics and Hope”
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Î Don’t Drink the Water
Student: Angie Panian
The Clean Water Act is the pri-
mary piece of legislation con-
trolling water pollution in this
country. What many people
don’t know is that the Clean
Water Act is in trouble; recent
changes passed by the Supreme
Court under the Bush adminis-
tration have weakened this law.
They have changed the defi ni-
tion of the waters protected un-
der the act, putting a large num-
ber of America’s rivers, streams,
and lakes at risk for the fi rst time
since the law was passed in 1977.
But this doesn’t have to contin-
ue. The Clean Water Restoration
Act of 2007 has been introduced
and is now in the fi rst step of the
legislative process.
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Student: Keenan Cummings
Water and oil have always been sources
for life, struggle, hope, contention, and
energy. Both hold strong cultural, social,
and political symbolism. “From Water to
Oil and Back” is a personal look at these
symbols and how they have developed
over time. For two chemicals that are so
fundamentally opposite, they share a
very similar place in our lives.
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The Global Water Gap
Student: Nick Mendoza
The Koran says, “By means
of water we give life to every-
thing.” This simple teaching
captures a deeper wisdom.
People need water as surely as
they need oxygen: without it,
life could not exist. But water
also gives life in a far broader
sense. People need clean wa-
ter and sanitation to sustain
their health and maintain
their dignity. But beyond the
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Rita
Student: Tyler Smart
No child should have to make the choice between having clean water to drink and getting an educa-
tion. Unfortunately, many children in Africa face this decision daily. Their education suffers both
from the time they are forced to spend acquiring water and from the poor facilities in schools due to
a lack of water. We can help put an end to these terrible circumstances.
household, water also sustains
ecological systems and pro-
vides an input into the pro-
duction systems that main-
tain livelihoods. Ultimately,
human development is about
the realization of potential. It
is about what people can do
and what they can become—
their capabilities—and about
the freedom they have to exer-
cise real choices in their lives.
When people are denied ac-
cess to clean water at home or
when they lack access to water
as a productive resource, their
choices and freedoms are con-
strained by ill health, poverty,
and vulnerability. Water gives
life to everything, including
human development and hu-
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The Tributary
Student: Arlo Vance
When discussing consump-
tion, the fi rst thing that comes
to mind is not how much
water I actually use; it usu-
ally has something to do with
whether or not I’m recycling
the disposable cup from the
Venti Soy Latté I bought at
Starbucks. Living in a society
where overconsumption is the
norm, it is no wonder that we
are concerned about things for
which the rest of the world has
little care. So many people in
the world do not have the daily
requirements of water for liv-
ing, let alone conveniences.
Ð Water Is Blood
Student: Zack Bartlett
Earth is the body; water is the
blood. The veins fl ow through
the body as rivers and creeks,
leading to the ocean. Poison-
ing the bloodstream will kill
the body. Our waste, which
ends up in city runoff, eventu-
ally reaches the ocean.
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Umbrellas
Student: Jenny Willardson
I think it is signifi cant that in the United States we have some-
thing designed to shield us from the rain. But in many under-
developed countries life depends on the rainwater received. I
thought the different orientations of the umbrella were an appro-
priate symbol of how we avoid the rain and how others collect it.
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