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The World's Water in Graphics
The world's water resources are becoming increasingly valuable—and strained. GOOD and the Office of CC put the mind-boggling numbers in perspective.
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OFFICE OF CC
An Amsterdam-based design company made up of Chris Vermaas and Chin-Lien Chen. They made beautiful graphics out of complicated information for Issue 005.
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Do you get?
Huh?
Posted on June 15, 2007 — by thegreenqueen
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Hamburgers, t-shirts and cars?
How can a hamburger possibly take 1303 gallons of water to make?
Posted on August 12, 2007 — by CrackRat
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Roger that!
Love this graphic! What a creative way to show all the info about global use of water. How 'bout those burgers now!
Posted on August 13, 2007 — by Baroque1
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I loved it. I hated it.
OoCC what a fab job on the graphics. I looked in detail at every illustration, every dotted line, every arrow. It was simple to connect with. You accomplished your goal with this reader - clear and impactful.
Then after a few minutes I felt like crap for being one of those 1.6 gallon flushing Americans.
Posted on August 14, 2007 — by me-o-my-o
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Cool, but...
I've traveled all over the world documenting the world water crisis, so I can speak to this with some understanding of the issue. About 1/5 of the world's poor have no access to clean water. I believe your graphics state a lot, and I think we should conserve water, but the real issue is that many people have no water at all, and it isn't because we use too much, it's simply because they lack the funds to build simple infrastructure to obtain the water. One of the things people must learn when they finally receive safe water in their communities is to use more of it, for washing hands, bathing children, doing laundry. People who have had to carry water for hours each day don't that doing these simple things will have a positive health impact on their families. So conserving is good for we fortunate folks in the West, but it doesn't help our neighbors in Ethiopia or Honduras. They need more water. Consider donating to a good water organization like Water 1st International. http://www.water1st.org Thanks.
Posted on August 23, 2007 — by FilmPhotoWeb
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