The Water We Want is a global competition organised by the Global Network of Water Museums since 2020 to reach out to children around the world for their thoughts on climate change, water and the environment. This year, the competition was supported by the Living Waters Museum. As the focal point for India, we received more than 80 entries from different schools around the country including artworks, photographs and music.
This exhibition showcases the 5 entries that were shortlisted for the global competition and a few others that were shortlisted by our review committee. Most paintings have sensitively expressed how the environment with a particular focus on water is continuously being degraded and there is a dire need to protect it for the future generations. The call for entries was merged with a another project led by us in Kolkata that focuses on youth voices in climate action in the Sunderbans.
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