Dupiton has spent the last few months overseeing an ambitious project to widen the La Quinte river, the biggest of several that empty at the town, so that it does not burst its banks once again.
According to Edwards, the inspiration for this piece came from nature, when he was sitting alone in the dry bed of a creek, overshadowed by the leaves of palm trees, listening to the birds and insects.
These warnings have sounded against a terrifying backdrop of climate chaos: Europe's rivers running dry, apocalyptic flooding in Pakistan, savage wildfires, heat and drought across the world.