Series: Waterworld
Title: The Black River Delta
In this image, it is my wish to trick the eye into believing we are looking down from high altitude over a vast river delta system. It reminds me in so many ways of how I have seen the Mekong river, twisting and turning it’s way towards the South China sea across the southern tip of Vietnam, glimpsed from aircraft windows during numerous flights between Penang and Saigon. Views of convoluted muddy brown waters set against the flat expanse of verdant paddy fields.
In the case of the WaterWorld’s Black River Delta, we have a more apocalyptic vision of a river system. We see the toxic river itself, set again damp desert terrain. Sands that are no longer dry; a result of the great planetary inundation process that is pushing ground water levels to the surface. Coupled to relentless rain, the desert hues are dulled down to muddy brown. The Black River cuts across this vast expanse of beige.
Enterococci are bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and therefore indicate possible contamination of streams and rivers by fecal waste. Sources of fecal indicator bacteria such as enterococci include wastewater treatment plant effluent, leaking septic systems, stormwater runoff, shrimp farms and sewage discharged or dumped from recreational boats, domestic animal and wildlife waste, improper land application of manure or sewage, and runoff from manure storage areas, pastures, rangelands, feedlots and shrimp farms.
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