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Vol. 27, No. 1: Human / Nature

Snapshot: Water Treatment, 2020

by Monique Verdin

Bvlbancha: St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Where does your water come from? How do we treat water? How is water treated? I’ll never forget, when I was about twenty, how I watched as my father made his way down the bank of the Mississippi to water’s edge, on a cold December day, to wash his face in the River. It seemed like a bad idea, but I watched as he kind of baptized himself, recognizing the River as a relative and old friend.

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