Have you ever thought about where your water comes from, what is in it, how it affects you, how your life is influenced by it, and how you are inextricably embedded with it? Turning on a tap or flushing a toilet is so common place we ignore the vast history and hidden network of pipes and plants that deliver it and dispose of it. To reveal this under discussed and theorized network we ask: How does water circulate around the city of Belfast? What is in it? Is it safe to drink? Where does drinking water come from? Where is it treated? Where is waste water brought to? Where does it go after it has been treated? How can architectural representation methods be used to communicate this information? In this book, Tracing Belfast’s Water, we seek to make visible the buried histories, geographies, architectures of water in Belfast by tracing the water network, unearthing its contents, mapping its history, allowing it to reflect back our cultures and built environments.
