earth in our hands envs 1000
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Earth in our handsENVS 1000
WATER
WHAT IS AN ISSUE?The way in which the
world is imagined
determines at any particular moment what men will do.” Walter Lippman, Public
Opinion 1921
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and
Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138
How do imagine
WATER?
Water
The world turns softlyNot to spill its lakes and rivers,The water is held in its armsAnd the sky is held in the water.What is water,That pours silverAnd can hold the sky?
Hilda Conkling
The Hydrological Cycle
How do we
study & research
WATER?
•Geology
•History
•Art
•Poetry
•Science
•Folklore
•Psychology
•Health
•Public Policy
•International Development
•Natural Disasters
•Education
•Marketing
•Etc….
From Ice-caps to glaciers to hidden
rivers
•Laurentide Ice Sheet
•Lake Aggasiz
•Toronto’s Hidden Rivers
Toronto’s
hidden Rivers
http://www.lostrivers.ca
The Human River
http://humanriver.ca/
Poetry
Waterfall at Lu-shan by Li Po
Sunlight streams on the river stones.From high above, the river steadily plunges—
three thousand feet of sparkling water--the Milky Way pouring down from heaven.
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillars of light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment, the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating away overthe blue shoulders of the ponds,and every pond,no matter what itsname is, is nameless now.Every yeareverythingI have ever learned
in my lifetimeleads back to this: the firesand the black river of losswhose other side is salvation,whose meaningnone of us will ever know.To live in this world you must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold it against your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go.
Charon
The River Lethe
The Water of Life
•Aquae Vita
•Uisce Ba
•Whiskey
Water: Human Need or Human
Right?“Water is a public trust, a common heritage of people and nature, and a fundamental human right. ... We must challenge the notion that water is a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Those who are committed to the privatization of water ... are denying people a human right as basic as the air we breathe.”
Miguel D’Escoto, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Maude barlow, senior advisor on water to UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto
Global consumption of bottled water:
- 154 billion litres in 2004, increase of 57% in 5 years - US drank 26 Billion litres in 2004 - Costs more than gasoline - Globally spend $100 Billion on bottled water, would cost $15 billion to
achieve MDG for water(UN's Millenium Development Goals -
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals)
Fossil fuels are used in packaging the
water: •polyethylene terephthalate requires
more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually
•Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle watereach year
After we drink the bottled water:
•86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter
• ''Bottled water is not guaranteed to be any healthier than tap water. In fact, roughly 40 percent of bottled water begins as tap water; often the only difference is added minerals that have no marked health benefit,'' EPI (Earth Policy Institute) said. France's Senate, it added, ''even advises people who drink bottled mineral water to change brands frequently because the added minerals are helpful in small amounts but may be dangerous in higher doses.''
• ''in a number of places, including Europe and the United States, there are more regulations governing the quality of tap water than bottled water.'‘
Cochabamba, BoliviaWater War
Dam Politics: India’s Leading Activist Medha Patkar Takes on
Corporate Control of Water
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/23/dam_politics_indias_leading_activist_medha
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