I never paid much attention to the table setting during Sunday lunches at my grandma’s until she asked me if I liked her new bell. A little buttress for the status quo, I thought about how the object in fact reinforces social hierarchy in old Filipino households.

Major cities across the world are in danger of losing water in the next few decades, unless their water use radically changes. Let us rekindle our relationship with our most valuable resource by imagining a world without it.