Description
The Litani River flows along the northern edge of the town of Bar Elias. It forms a natural border, and contributes to the sense of Bar Elias as a unique place in Lebanon. Residents are currently witnessing the shift of the Litani from being a vital source of life - irrigating the fields and being a centre of social life for young people and families in the region - to becoming a non-living existent which carries polluted waters from upstream into the town. The images in this essay comment on the Litani's transformation: showing its continued importance to people's lives as it changes.