Water Talks: Empowering Communities to Know, Restore, and Preserve their Waters

Betsy Damon's book explores our interdependence with water and our responsibility for addressing the decline in water quality. She argues that lasting solutions require a fundamental understanding and empirical knowledge of water and its role for all life on earth.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: SteinerBooks, Inc

Ignoring water's essential role as the connective tissue of all life on Earth is widespread. Unfortunately, the response to each environmental problem tends to be piecemeal -- addressing one threat rather than responding with complex solutions that will address the underlying problems. Over the past four decades, artist, activist, and teacher Betsy Damon has studied virtually every aspect of water, from the essence of water drops to whole water systems and their connections to life on Earth. Over the years, she has witnessed the decline in water quality around the world as a result of human actions. In this comprehensive and insightful book, Damon writes about our interdependence with water in every aspect of life. She discusses many of the technical, social, and ethical issues we face and our individual and collective responsibility for addressing the decline in water quality. Damon argues that lasting solutions to this problem depend on a fundamental understanding and empirical knowledge of water and its role for all life on Earth. She provides an overview of water as a fundamental human right and describes how that right has been curtailed through pollution and the commercialization of water supplies. Through inspiring personal stories and projects, scientific and technological studies and solutions, Damon reveals how to better appreciate and approach the problems so that clean water, air, and soil can be available for all life.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781938685385