Issue 4 The Water Issue – Sublime

Fabien Cousteau Amazon Call

laurasan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The banks of the Amazon River hide a deceptively intricate network of rich biodiversity that my family and I have explored for a quarter of a century. Despite the downward spiral of our planet’s health, we still feel that hope is hiding beyond each bend in the river and lurking behind every leaf. Following the...

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The Controlling Element

laurasan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

As every schoolchild knows, we human beings are 70 per cent water, not counting the fat. We need between one and seven litres of water per day to keep going, to keep all of the organs running, to look good (skin), and think efficiently (brain). In a neat parallel, 70 per cent of the world’s...

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Water Wars

laurasan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The trouble with water – and there is trouble with water – is that they’re not making any more of it. They’re not making any less, but no more either – there is the same amount of water on the planet now as there was in prehistoric times. People, however, they’re making more of –...

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Waterside Views

Wayne Hemingway — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my life crabbing in Morecambe’s boating pools, digging for ragworm with my Pop on the mussel beds and fishing for flatties off the stone jetty. Some...

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