Edward Burtynsky's evocative Water collection was created with the aim of exploring both the natural conditions of water on our planet and the human uses that have been put to it. (Meyers 2013.) The series of photographs in Water shows us new perspectives through which we can see human impact. Burtynsky frames his composition so uniquely and so intentionally, that in one photograph he is able to awaken sensitivity in a viewer, and with a single collection of photographs he can start a conversation about the reckless actions we take among or against the waters and the wonders of our earth." I wanted to understand water: what it is and what it leaves behind when we are no longer here. I wanted to understand our use and abuse of it. I wanted to track evidence of global thirst and threatened sources . Water is part of a pattern that I have watched develop over the course of my career. I document landscapes that, whether you think of them as beautiful or monstrous, or as a strange combination of the two, are clearly not vistas of an inexhaustible, sustainable world." (Burtynsky.) Water is the concept at the center of all the photographs in the series and yet, ironically, it is often absent or secondary. Water is the conversation we should be having, but after watching this series it's clear that dilemmas and often devastation are the real topic here. Burtynsky certainly includes frames that open us to the wonder of water's scope, its power and centrality in our lives and at the same time is able to make water a victim of human crimes, the spectator and clay in potter's hands. . Burtynsky gives water a place and a personality in these photographs as no author has ever perfected before or after him. Perfection and p... middle of paper... huge and far-reaching population. They are both the most susceptible to environmental change and water devastation and equally highly responsible for the change. Underdeveloped nations are also some of the most deregulated manufacturing sectors in the world. …. STAT here. Although slightly smaller in scale than the perspectives of others in the series, Manikarnika Ghat has a more precise purpose, we feel closer to the source. Source of water and source of trouble, humans come front and center, and Burtynsky is careful to include them front and center, not just at a distance. Without appearing to, it invites viewers to consider the limits of the earth's vulnerability and so delicately reaches the hearts and heads of art lovers and art beginners alike by engaging and stimulating conversation without ever staging a set piece. or say a word.