The white surrounding the exterior of this Ossigeno issue also concludes its interior through the photographic series by Angelo Del Negro, immersed in the White Beaches of Rosignano, boldly renamed the Caribbean of Livorno. However, white sand and crystal clear water are nothing but the fake Paradise of the spill of bleaching agents by the nearby Solvay. Because appearances can sometimes be deceiving.
Embodiment of the effort in the protection of biological and cultural diversity. Honoured in 1993 with the Right Livelihood Award, the Alternative Nobel Prize for Peace. Quantum physicist and economist, vice president of Slow Food International and founder of Navdanya: signing for Ossigeno #11 the opening text on the interrelation between water, soil and humanity, the global icon of activism Vandana Shiva.
The fluid and evocative poetics by Leonardo Merlini merges with the narrative intensity by the renowned Dutch writer Frank Westerman in a tale, that of their encounters, sailing on the waters of Venice and the Vajont, of Lake Nyos and the Ark of Noah. The large-scale hydraulic works as ports for sailing towards a narration of the contemporary, and of the human attempt to govern its flows.
We immerse ourselves in the aesthetics of water and its symbolic power through the meeting with Gian Maria Tosatti – to whom, in 2022, Italy has entrusted its largest artistic institutions, the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial – choosing him as a bright beacon to investigate the shelter that his art has offered to water as a universal right, and to culture as interdisciplinary fluidity.
Water disinfection and recycling, desalination, drip irrigation: Israel, a nation whose morphology is 60% desert, has been able to make a virtue out of necessity, becoming a pioneer in the implementation of cutting-edge technologies to deal with the global problem of water scarcity. The report by Patricia Golan, member of the Israeli innovation community DeserTech.
The future of marketing goes through a free bottle of water. This is revealed to us by Albert Prewitt, founding partner of FreeWater, a US startup able to adopt the principle of opportunity cost by the Nobel Prize Milton Friedman not only to produce a fair and sustainable revenue, but above all in order to support a non-profit organization the likes of Save the Refugees, and in order to quench thirst in the world.