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Earth in our hands ENVS 1000

Earth in our hands ENVS 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.

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Earth in our hands ENVS 1000

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  1. Earth in our handsENVS 1000 WATER

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. How do imagine WATER?

  5. Water The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver And can hold the sky? Hilda Conkling

  6. The Hydrological Cycle

  7. How do we study & research WATER?

  8. Health • Public Policy • International Development • Natural Disasters • Education • Marketing • Etc…. • Geology • History • Art • Poetry • Science • Folklore • Psychology

  9. From Ice-caps to glaciers to hidden rivers • Laurentide Ice Sheet • Lake Aggasiz • Toronto’s Hidden Rivers

  10. Toronto’s hidden Rivershttp://www.lostrivers.ca

  11. The Human River http://humanriver.ca/

  12. Black Creek Storytelling Parade Blog

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Charon

  16. The River Lethe

  17. The Water of Life • Aquae Vita • Uisce Ba • Whiskey

  18. 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.” Maude barlow, senior advisor on water to UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Miguel D’Escoto, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

  19. 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)

  20. 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

  21. After we drink the bottled water: • 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter

  22. ''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.'‘

  23. Cochabamba, BoliviaWater War

  24. 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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