Stunning Photographs Show How We are Using And Abusing The World’s Water by Adele Peters

Since water covers most of the Earth’s surface, the filmmakers had to carefully choose a handful of stories to tell. “It was like a design process–we opened with research and development of the idea of water and reduced it to 50 or 60 ideas that might resonate visually and conceptually,” Burtynsky says. “We had a large pool that we kept trimming and trimming until we got to the film.”