Living in the high desert of Arizona, I am very grateful for water!
How can we better protect water and perhaps have an abundance of water in the ground?
This is what I ponder today, World Water Day 2022.
Fortunately, I have help from a community known as Water Stories.
The people at Water Stories train and connect people to heal their landscape and create water abundance.
Water is the Blood of Earth
If you draw the analogy between water and blood, the Earth and your own body, you can quickly understand a lot about the water cycle. You can see how the springs, creeks, and rivers mirror our own veins.
But it’s not just the water in and on the ground but also in the air, the atmospheric rivers of water vapor that function as the arteries, with the forests as the lungs. Water moves through the Earth’s circulatory system, bringing life to land.
Much like our own body, when this system is disrupted, damage and loss is inevitable. When the water cycle is fully functioning we have a healthy environment.
New Water Paradigm
We need to move from drainage to retention, exploitation to co-creation.
This begins by changing our relationship with water and nature to one of love and respect – understanding that water is sacred, and is a common good for all life on this planet.
By holding water in the ground, the vegetation will return and along with it, transpiration and cooling. We need to terrace and revegetate the unused or less used lands, in order to infiltrate more water into the earth.
We need to find ways wherever and whenever possible to start offsetting all of the hard surfaces and drainage our ancestors have created.
Water Stories Community
This is a community of like-minded individuals concerned about the health of earth, water, and life.
All are interested in repairing the water cycle that life depends upon.
Their hope is to teach you the best practices and theories of water restoration, while simultaneously providing professional training, guidance, community, and mentorship to make it happen in your part of the world.
Discussion. Connection. Inspiration. Action.
Desert or Rainforest Film
This film is a good example of how we can better protect water and even bring more of it back. It was a 50-year journey!
Soil Microbiologist Walter Jehne and his team created a rainforest in an arid part of Australia. The rainforest keeps temperatures cool throughout the year.
In a horrific year of heat and wildfires in Australia, this place had no problem weathering the fires.
Join the Community to watch the film!
