Rios Pacheco felt compelled to talk about the importance of water after leading a Native American ceremony to dedicate Liberty Park’s Seven Canyon Refuge in Salt Lake City.

“We need to let our children know water doesn’t come from the tap,” said Pacheco, a member of Utah’s Northwestern Band of Shoshone. “Water isn’t something that is just given to us.”

That’s essentially the message of the new park feature, which transforms the old Seven Canyons Fountain into a thought-provoking representation of the Salt Lake Valley’s water system rather than a physical representation of it.

Salt Lake City unveiled the reimagined art feature on Thursday, five years after allocating a little more than $850,000 in capital improvement funds toward a new use for the old fountain. The new feature seeks to b

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