“I have seen so much change, and that includes advances in living standards for millions of people on the one hand, and the increasing destruction of the environment on the other. Somehow, we must find a middle path. This is why Betsy wrote this book.”
—Dr. Jane Goodall
Researchers have demonstrated that sound waves can break down “forever chemicals”. This technology is in its first steps, but presents a promising new direction for water-cleaning.
Betsy Damon gave a talk at the Soil Factory, an experimental venue in Ithaca. Also present were other women artists Betsy collaborated with 50 years ago during the early years of the feminist art movement in Ithaca.
Check out this talk by Christina Bertea on a cutting-edge sewage treatment plant in Tecate, Mexico.
“Water is the foundation of life.
Therefore water must be the foundation for
planning and design.”
There has to be clean water in the mind for the spirit to drink.
— Thomas Merton
Long ago pilgrims would travel great distances to visit a holy spring, or to drink from a sacred well. Like an image out of a fairy tale, we don’t give much thought to springs nowadays. Water runs from our taps or we drink from from the bottled ‘spring’ water’ available in the shops. Our hands have forgotten how it feels to dip into clear sweet tasting water. How often do we kneel on mossy banks to gaze at our reflection mirrored on the surface of a glistening pool of water.
When you support us you support the work and education that we are providing to communities and water systems in many parts of the world.
Keepers of the Waters has had the joy of helping to support Le Musée de l'Eau in Burkina Faso. This museum is a space for valuing water as a resource at cultural, sociological, anthropological and political levels.
If corporations have personhood, then surely rivers must at least have the rights of personhood. Let’s start an international movement for our rivers and streams.
The nightmare of cities without water is starting to become a reality. As more and more people are living in sky-scraped metropolises, we have to start paying attention to water availability. Los Angeles and Cape Town, for example, both recently faced draughts with uncertain outcomes.
Working with Native American communities in the Dakotas to study and clean up the Cheyenne River after many years of pollution from the mining of uranium. Assesment, planning and cleanup are needed for this large scale project.
The Living Water Garden, located in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, was the first inner city ecological park in the world with water as its theme.
In twenty days we covered 5000k visiting water sites, villages and cities by horse back, hiking and having the five us crammed into a jeep. I do not remember many paved roads.
Sounds of Water is a multi-functional water feature and a metaphor for the mountains and earth—the sources of water—at the Turtle Bay Arboretum in Redding , CA.
