Lillian Ball is an ecological artist/activist working on water issues with a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, ethnographic film, and sculpture. She has exhibited and lectured internationally, including at the Anchorage Museum, Seville Biennial, and Reina Sofia Museum in Spain. Numerous art awards include: two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a John-Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. She was named 2012 Environmentalist of the Year by the North Fork Environmental Council, and awarded a citation by the New York State Assembly for WATERWASH ABC. Since 2006, when Ball was appointed to the Southold, NY Land Preservation Committee, she has worked with this maritime municipality on conservation, land use, and stewardship of their public preserves.

The ongoing WATERWASH® public project series combines stormwater remediation, wetland habitat restoration, and educational outreach. The original prototype transformed a water access park and was funded by the Long Island Sound Futures Fund as a concept that can be adapted to coastal situations worldwide. WATERWASH Bronx River, the second completed work, is an innovative collaborative green infrastructure solution to runoff pollution in the Bronx River. Job skills apprentices from Rocking the Boat, a non-profit teaching local youth to build wooden boats and do environmental work on the river, planted 9000 native plants. WATERWASH Bronx River cleans commercial parking lot runoff before it enters the river, opens private property to public use, and was funded by the NY State Attorney General’s Office with fines from polluters.