The Freshwater Trail

Arati Kumar-Rao

All the drinking water in the world will fit in a cube that can sit over the city of Bangalore. And in this industrial age, everyone wants a share of aquifers, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Voices get shriller and stakes rise ever higher should a river cross international boundaries. Add to all this, the unpredictability of weather patterns in the age of climate change.

On the freshwater trail, I will follow the changing fortunes of people and species in the anthropocene era