Watershed: The Burdens of Our Consumption of Bottled Water

bottle2As a follow up to last year’s “Urban Tumbleweeds” art installation at Burning Man, this past weekend, as a part of FIGMENT, New York based design studio MSLK has assembled a new eco-art project entitled Watershed.

Watershed is composed of 1,500 plastic water bottles (the number of bottles consumed every second in the United States), strung from a tree—perhaps arranged symbolically pointing to our consumption’s burden on the earth.

bottlesThe downsides to bottled water have been well documented; from the energy and resources required to producing and transporting the bottles, to the pollution and waste …


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