We don’t call Earth ‘The Blue Planet’ for nothing. Go to the deepest, darkest corners of the Atlantic Ocean; go to the pure and pristine peaks of the Himalayas; go to the thirsty soil of an African savannah when it rains; go to the furious flow of the Amazon River in Brazil. There, you’ll find it. Water. It’s omnipresent. It’s overwhelming. It’s the narrator of our livelihoods. It’s the topic of this issue of Tvergastein.
We tend to forget, yet, water is finite, irreplaceable and fundamental for all life on Earth. Today more than ever before, water issues pose some of the biggest challenges we face, and our relationship towards it can be described as questionable. Therefore, Tvergastein’s Issue #11 will surf across a wide range of topics, from water governance and water pollution, to the history of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
