Glass of Water

So I'm learning a lot about the state of the world's water and it's kind of freaking me out. I'm reading this book "Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water," I recommend it. Anyways, there was an article in the NY Times on the 8th about drug traces in the nation's drinking water.

I decided to use excerpts from the article for this assignment. I printed this on a water glass.

An Associated Press investigation shows a vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.

The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the city's water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer.

Yet officials in New York City did not go on to test their drinking water.

“Drug Traces Common in Tap Water” The New York Times. March 10, 2008.

I went to Union Square during lunch time on Monday and put the glass on one of Lawrence Weiner's Manhole Covers which say, "In direct line with another and the next."

Quite a few people stopped and read the glass. After about 20 minutes a teenage girl knocked over the glass and a group of people crowded around looking very distraught and seemingly looking for the owner of the glass. The glass was put upright and the group scattered.