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Check out this report released in June 2011
Carlos Fresneda of El Mundo writes in Spanish about Brock "The Water Messenger" July 2011
Check out this new report on our ag roofwater system that uses the Wonder Gutter
WATER Institute contributes to Agricultural Water Stewardship Recommendations, June 2011
WATER Institute Director Brock Dolman invited for field research trip on international water issues in Sichuan China & Tibet
WATER Institute director Brock Dolman has been invited by Betsy Damon of Keepers of the Waters to accompany her on a research work trip to Sichuan China and Tibet this June 2009.
Betsy writes eloquently of this journey and its critical importance below and on her website www.keepersofthewaters.org/ . See the Tibetan specific page www.keepersofthewaters.org/TWC.cfm
Betsy Damon Writes:
The Chinese classic on the formation of the cosmos states: There is no way of love, water is love. I interpret this to mean that without life there is no love—and water gives life to all. It follows that water quality is essential and that we as the caretakers of planet earth must protect the waters.
I discovered in the Tibetan culture of Western Sichuan knowledge of water that is unrecorded and profound. Each site has a story that recounts its founding and instructs on how to use and how to protect the waters of that site. I have begun documenting this water culture with two Tibetan women in a project called reSources: Saving Living Systems.
Documentation of springs and sacred sites—those sites that a community acknowledges as sustaining life—serves multiple purposes. First and foremost, it focuses on waters in danger of rapidly disappearing due to global warming, extraction, damming, and a global economy. Second, it begins to educate rural communities who often misunderstand the policies and procedures that affect their water sources, and urban communities that may be unaware of the ecosystems upon which they depend.
Our documentation ensures that for the first time there will be a clear map of these sources to ensure careful planning and development, when or if people are planning water transfers, damming, mining, or extraction businesses. reSources has already inspired similar projects in other communities.
Betsy Damon and Brock Dolman, Director of the WATER Institute at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaecwater.org), are going to Western Sichuan in June 2009 to complete research and begin implementation.
If Keepers of the Waters has inspired you in the past, or if this project captures your imagination, please consider making a donation at www.keepersofthewaters.org or please speak with Brock about how you can support this critical effort.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Betsy Damon
Here are a several specific web pages of Betsy’s water work in China:
www.keepersofthewaters.org/
www.keepersofthewaters.org/eec.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/mvp.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/TWC.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/tzm.cfm
Betsy writes eloquently of this journey and its critical importance below and on her website www.keepersofthewaters.org/ . See the Tibetan specific page www.keepersofthewaters.org/TWC.cfm
Betsy Damon Writes:
The Chinese classic on the formation of the cosmos states: There is no way of love, water is love. I interpret this to mean that without life there is no love—and water gives life to all. It follows that water quality is essential and that we as the caretakers of planet earth must protect the waters.
I discovered in the Tibetan culture of Western Sichuan knowledge of water that is unrecorded and profound. Each site has a story that recounts its founding and instructs on how to use and how to protect the waters of that site. I have begun documenting this water culture with two Tibetan women in a project called reSources: Saving Living Systems.
Documentation of springs and sacred sites—those sites that a community acknowledges as sustaining life—serves multiple purposes. First and foremost, it focuses on waters in danger of rapidly disappearing due to global warming, extraction, damming, and a global economy. Second, it begins to educate rural communities who often misunderstand the policies and procedures that affect their water sources, and urban communities that may be unaware of the ecosystems upon which they depend.
Our documentation ensures that for the first time there will be a clear map of these sources to ensure careful planning and development, when or if people are planning water transfers, damming, mining, or extraction businesses. reSources has already inspired similar projects in other communities.
Betsy Damon and Brock Dolman, Director of the WATER Institute at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaecwater.org), are going to Western Sichuan in June 2009 to complete research and begin implementation.
If Keepers of the Waters has inspired you in the past, or if this project captures your imagination, please consider making a donation at www.keepersofthewaters.org or please speak with Brock about how you can support this critical effort.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Betsy Damon
Here are a several specific web pages of Betsy’s water work in China:
www.keepersofthewaters.org/
www.keepersofthewaters.org/eec.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/mvp.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/TWC.cfm
www.keepersofthewaters.org/tzm.cfm