Editing Water (section)

===Art and activism===
In the significant [[Modernist literature|modernist]] novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (1922) by Irish writer [[James Joyce]], the chapter "Ithaca" takes the form of a [[catechism]] of 309 questions and answers, one of which is known as the "water hymn".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Madtes |first=Richard E. |title=The "Ithaca" chapter of Joyce's "Ulysses" |publisher=UMI Research Press |year=1983 |isbn=0835714608 |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan}}</ref>{{Rp|page=91}} According to Richard E. Madtes, the hymn is not merely a "monotonous string of facts", rather, its phrases, like their subject, "ebb and flow, heave and swell, gather and break, until they subside into the calm quiescence of the concluding 'pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.'"<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=79}} The hymn is considered one of the most remarkable passages in Ithaca, and according to literary critic [[Hugh Kenner]], achieves "the improbable feat of raising to poetry all the clutter of footling information that has accumulated in schoolbooks."<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=91}} The [[motif (narrative)|literary motif]] of water represents the novel's theme of "everlasting, everchanging life," and the hymn represents the culmination of the motif in the novel.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=91}} The following is the hymn quoted in full.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=James |title=Ulysses |publisher=The Odyssey Press |year=1933 |editor-last=Wegner |editor-first=Christian |volume=2 |location=Hamburg |pages=668–670}}</ref>
{{blockquote|What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?<br>Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.}}[[File:And The Kitchen Sink Too (137906641).jpeg|thumb|The vast "water hymn" in [[James Joyce]]'s novel [[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'']] is occasioned when the protagonist [[Leopold Bloom]] fills a [[kettle]] with water from a [[kitchen]] [[faucet]].<ref name=":1" />]]

Painter and activist [[Fredericka Foster]] curated ''The Value of Water'', at the [[Cathedral of St. John the Divine]] in New York City,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vartanian |first1=Hrag |title=Manhattan Cathedral Explores Water in Art |url=https://hyperallergic.com/36682/the-value-of-water-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine/ |access-date=14 December 2020 |publisher=Hyperallergic |date=3 October 2011 |archive-date=3 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203190158/https://hyperallergic.com/36682/the-value-of-water-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which anchored a year-long initiative by the Cathedral on our dependence on water.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kowalski|first1=James A.|title=The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and The Value of Water|url=http://huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-james-a-kowalski/the-value-of-water_1_b_994166.html|website=huffingtonpost.com|date=6 October 2011|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=6 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806061621/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-james-a-kowalski/the-value-of-water_1_b_994166.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://vimeo.com/38030959/|title=The Value of Water at St John the Divine|last1=Foster|first1=Fredericka|website=vimeo.com|publisher=Sara Karl|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301114643/https://vimeo.com/38030959|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest exhibition to ever appear at the Cathedral,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Tom|title=The Value of Water Exhibition|url=http://artsci.ucla.edu/events/value-water-exhibition|access-date=14 December 2020|publisher=UCLA Art Science Center|archive-date=3 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203213346/http://artsci.ucla.edu/events/value-water-exhibition|url-status=live}}</ref> it featured over forty artists, including [[Jenny Holzer]], [[Robert Longo]], [[Mark Rothko]], [[William Kentridge]], [[April Gornik]], [[Kiki Smith]], [[Pat Steir]], [[Alice Dalton Brown]], [[Teresita Fernandez]] and [[Bill Viola]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Madel |first1=Robin |title=Through Art, the Value of Water Expressed |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/through-art-the-value-of-water-expressed_b_985997 |access-date=16 December 2020 |publisher=Huffington Post |date=6 December 2017 |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201064707/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/through-art-the-value-of-water-expressed_b_985997 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Cotter|first1=Mary|title=Manhattan Cathedral Examines 'The Value of Water' in a New Star-Studded Art Exhibition|url=http://inhabitat.com/nyc/manhattan-cathedral-examines-the-value-of-water-in-a-new-star-studded-art-exhibition/|website=Inhabitat|date=4 October 2011|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708195254/https://inhabitat.com/nyc/manhattan-cathedral-examines-the-value-of-water-in-a-new-star-studded-art-exhibition/|url-status=live}}</ref> Foster created Think About Water,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thinkaboutwater.com/ |title=Think About Water |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=26 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126122615/https://www.thinkaboutwater.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2022}} an ecological collective of artists who use water as their subject or medium. Members include Basia Irland,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.basiairland.com/ |title=Basia Irland |access-date=19 August 2021 |archive-date=14 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014204543/https://www.basiairland.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2022}} [[Aviva Rahmani]], [[Betsy Damon]], [[Diane Burko]], [[Leila Daw]], [[Stacy Levy]], Charlotte Coté,<ref>{{cite web |title=Influential Figures Dr. Charlotte Cote |url=https://tseshaht.com/history-culture/influential-figures/dr-charlotte-cote-2/ |website=Tseshaht First Nation [c̓išaaʔatḥ] |access-date=19 August 2021 |archive-date=19 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819181901/https://tseshaht.com/history-culture/influential-figures/dr-charlotte-cote-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Meridel Rubenstein]], and [[Anna Macleod]].

To mark the 10th anniversary of access to water and sanitation being declared a human right by the UN, the charity WaterAid commissioned ten visual artists to show the impact of clean water on people's lives.<ref>{{cite news |title=10 years of the human rights to water and sanitation |url=https://www.unwater.org/10-years-of-the-human-rights-to-water-and-sanitation/ |access-date=19 August 2021 |agency=UN – Water Family News |publisher=United Nations |date=27 February 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819190212/https://www.unwater.org/10-years-of-the-human-rights-to-water-and-sanitation/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Water is sacred': 10 visual artists reflect on the human right to water |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/04/water-is-sacred-10-visual-artists-reflect-on-the-human-right-to-water |access-date=19 August 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=4 August 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819033524/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/04/water-is-sacred-10-visual-artists-reflect-on-the-human-right-to-water |url-status=live }}</ref>