Thank Heavens for young people who are uninhibited enough to dress up in funny costumes dance for the river. Here are some pictures of that momentous occasion. A big thank you to the Wood and Strings Puppet theater for the River Guardian Puppets.
Tomorrow Oct 29th at 5:00 on green at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski TN The Global Rivers Art Exchange and the Martin Art Team will launch the first of many Water Appreciation Parades. The Wood and Strings Puppet theater will join us too as we create the largest waltz for the water ever staged. More later… Here’s a sneak peak at two of our many parade hats.
Cover shows a a giant water drop hitting a puddle text reads: LIQUID ASSET Big Business and the Race to Control the World’s Water, on page 42, it is chilling.. The arcticle, written by Jeneen Interlandi, talks about Sita Alaska home of the worlds most spectacular lakes and trillions of gallons of pure water.. In a few months if all goes according to plan 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will be siphoned into the kind of tankers usually reserved for oil and shipped to Mumbai India. From there it goes into bottles and shipped to the Middle East. This article is well worth the read. I actually had a hard time reading this, as it scares me to think we are on the brink of watching corporations take the right of clean water away from humanity. As far as i can see the fad of bottled water could be the last straw in a precarious situation. We are dealing with a similar concern as a few bottling companies vie for an outstanding freshwater spring called Campbellsville Spring in our area (see earlier blog)… Also, I’m opened for all kinds of sollutions to this problem. Feel free to comment … next blog is an expose on a few of your everyday water bottle companies. Prepare to get frustrated and scandalized…
Clean Flow International: a US company wins The Innovation in Technology Award, sponsored by the Wistex Foundation last March for its successful restoration of ten freshwater lakes in India that were heavily polluted by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. The foundation is located in India and promotes technology that solves problems in India. see http://www.clean-flo.com/articles/india-cleans/ This company uses a combination of an oxygenation system and nitrogen and phosphorus-feeding bacteria to clean the waters with this type of pollutant. . Evidently it has worked quite well. So here we have a solution… On this site you’ll find both solutions and problems. hang on to your hats… here comes the shoe dropping…. The next blog is going to be about the cover of News Week magazine, October 18th 2010.. Stay tuned
The clean up of the River Thames
www.telegraph.co.uk
Fifty years after being declared biologically dead, the Thames has been hailed as an environmental success story. But how has the iconic river been transformed? Check out this inspiring story.
You know, learning about the world’s rivers has been a real journey for me. I started out just looking at the facinating story of one river, the Cuyahoga. Now with the help of my artist friends and my dedicated students we share the stories of many rivers. Lately as a class we have been researching web sites that talk about the rivers that have been reclaimed. This has been so uplifting. It can be done, it is being done and it must be done! The Global Rivers Art Exchange is in search of cleaned rivers.. We will be posting our research on rivers that have been restored.