The Incredible Process of Evapotranspiration: An Exhibit

This blog post will serve as the development of the evapotranspiration exhibit idea for the Water Museum at the Delft Conference. I will be adding updates weekly.

My vision for this exhibit shifts away from an anthropocentric relationship water and instead inspires viewers with the amazing processes within nature that this planet has been doing since long before humans ever existed.

I originally thought of a video or science experiment that illustrated this process, but now I am wondering if a more artistic spin would help personify the trees and other vegetation, making it easy to sadness or sorrow when the reach for the water underground and it is no longer there.

Of course, this exhibit will also touch on climate change and its effects on the receding groundwater levels, variable rainfall rates, as well as direct causes such as deforestation.

See also related blog post involving evapotranspiration called "What water cycle?"

Additional resources:

- Scientific explanation: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

- What plants talk about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrrSAc-vjG4&pbjreload=10

- Brilliant usage of various forms of media (images, text, video) as well as documentation online: https://www.northeastern.edu/interarts/sarah-kanouse/ -- She just spoke at the GCSC Seminar Series today (Feb 20, 2018) and brought an artistic perspective to many of today's global issues.

"Not all types of water are seen as being equally important or relevant in society..." - Terje Oestigaard