Water is not just a supplement to life, but an inseparable suspension. It is the stuff of fable, a fathomless depth and an aesthetic surface, mercurial and immersive. Yet water is also a resource to be exploited, sold in pedigreed bottles, channeled in irrigation, dammed with no restraint. This modest triptych of programs imagines several of water's manifestations, as the buoyant base of maritime culture, as an aqueous attractant for artists, and finally as a contested commodity in the affairs of state. What more to say? The subject is transparent.