Some have noted, water is often present in my photographs: coastal landscape, landscapes of lakes, river or rivers, even simple pond with ducks. With its reflections, transparencies, lighting and colors, water whether in natural or urban environment is an aesthetic and photogenic element, that’s for sure. But even if we forget that sometimes the water is a little more than that: this is not a news, but we need sometimes to remember that water is a necessity of Life (example, water = up to 90% of some of our body cells). Water is also a material necessary for an industry that is very-too-greedy. Covering three-quarters of the Earth’s surface, it seems endless. Yet water, and especially drinking water, is a resource distributed unevenly in the world and is scarce in some regions, with the anthology of health problems that entails. When it is less rare, it is often polluted, as is the case for example of many groundwaters, and of course rivers which carrying their polluted alluviums into our big oceans. Bigs, but not enough to prevent heavy metals, variety of chemicals, and even multiple plastic particles in suspension in the water, to be absorbed by plankton and fish. Follow the food chain, you will find it in your plate…
A return to the sender isn’t it ? Let’s think about it…
The Seine river in Paris, France.
Who would say seeing this beautiful waterscape that this river, like so many others, carries many pollutants that will sooner or later go into the Atlantic. An ocean pollution which has a level such high that it relegates, by comparison, oil spills and other fuel tanks emptying to simple (but telegenics) anecdotal episodes…
Tags: ecology, Environment, paris, pollution, river, waterscape
