Water is life

All life is dependent on water. Water is our most abundant resource, our greatest need and the lack of it still kills. At a time where global incomes have never been so high and income inequalities never so wide this piece of work seeks to highlight the lack of water (the highest need for life) as a blight on development. The sonification draws on water as the core premise of the work. Data relating to access to water and adequate sanitation is contrasted against global life expectancy. The work highlights the most disadvantaged in their access to clean water and sanitation and also tracks nations whose experience from 1990 to 2002 has deteriorated in terms of sustainable access to clean water and adequate sanitation. These beats and rhythms are then juxtaposed against data from studies on mortality from diarrhea where the death rates have been greater than 10% of the population under examination.