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Mar 25, 2012

"It's a rare fish that knows it swims in water." --Old Adage

A Chinese Living Water Garden

Water is art activist Betsy Damon's passion. She was studying sacred springs in China when she began meeting individuals interested in water from a variety of angles: medicine, hydraulic engineering, spirituality. This unique collaboration led to an invitation to review a major water project in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan. Because of her critique, the project was actually scrapped. But then Damon was asked to design a new project -- which actually got built. Stretching along the Yangtze River and serving Chengdu's roughly 10 million citizens, it's the first municipal living water garden in the world -- "Polluted river water moves through a natural, and artistic treatment system of ponds, filters and flowforms, making the process of cleaning water visible."