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1/6 Water detectives are asking a radical question: what does #water want? “Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge” (@uchicagopress, 2022) is about changing our relationship with water from a control mindset to one of collaboration. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
2/6 Climate change is bringing bigger rains & more severe droughts. But our development choices are making these disasters worse. Urban sprawl, industrial agriculture, & attempts to control water - levees and dams, burying creeks and wetlands - are making human habitats brittle.
3/6 Standard development sees water as a commodity or threat, so seeks control. But other cultures, incl. #Indigenous peoples, see water as a friend or relative & seek to understand its relationships w/rock, microbes, beavers, us. That fosters reciprocity: care & need entwined.
"SLOW WATER" is what I'm calling the way we can adapt to avoid the increased flood risk of 48 percent of global land area by 2100, and 52% of the population, per a new study from @nature slowwater.world
I've been reporting on people who are innovating Slow Water solutions for my upcoming book, as they ask a bold question that inverts our control freak tendencies: What does water want? #slowwater #water #climate 
#Climate change is amplifying floods and droughts, but our development -- urban sprawl, industrial agriculture -- and the way we’ve tried to control water – dams, levees, channelizing rivers -- are making these disasters worse. #slowwater #water ericagies.com/wp-content/upl…
