Talking Water
Talking Water is an offering by Walking Water ...
Walking Water, born from a vision received in Payahuunadü - "the place where the water flows" on the ancestral homelands of the Paiute-Shoshone people - is a project and a prayer that centers water as teacher, guide, and sacred source.
We began as a three-year pilgrimage along the natural and human-made waterways between Mono Lake and Los Angeles, CA, partnering with local and global communities to collectively bear witness to the situation of water in our world. Following the path of water from source to end-user, we witnessed histories and current realities of destruction, violence, harm and extraction. Alongside the stories of grief, we celebrated those of beauty and resilience - possibilities for the healing and regeneration of waters, landscapes, and communities.
We continue to listen to the guidance and orientation of water, for how Walking Water might serve as one tributary within a global and intergenerational movement to restore relations with waters, lands and peoples. We move with the question: what world is possible if human beings devote themselves - personally, politically, spiritually - to that which gives life? We understand how essential it is for us to recognize and honor the leadership of Indigenous peoples and communities of color who have been protecting the waters and the lands from extraction and exploitation for hundreds of years -whose life ways, languages and cultures offer profound teachings for how to grow into right relationship.
A commitment to healing waters asks each of us to find our role in movements that struggle to dismantle oppressive systems that commodify waters, lands and peoples in pursuit of power and profit. And as we carry the dream of justice for waters and peoples alike, we strive to uplift and support those individuals and communities who are "acupuncture points" of healing and possibility, actively living towards that more beautiful and liberated world.
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Walking Water is a fiscally sponsored project of Weaving Earth
Banner photo by Teena Pugliese
Talking Water
with the Watershed Association
“What does your water come from? If we know the answer to that, that’s the first step towards conservation…Then we start to connect with that source. We are water. It’s running through us. No one can own the water. We have it for a time..” –David Baker, Executive Director and founder the Watershed Association
The Watershed Association invites Talking Water listeners into a wholehearted conversation about heeding the call to water advocacy through the guests' reflections on founding the Watershed Association and their continued service decades later. David Baker, Executive Director and founder, and Ellen Evans, Director of Operations, share seminal experiences which guided them to vocations to protect Jacob’s Well, a natural artesian spring and second longest submerged cave which is located in the Hill Country of South-Central Texas. Since 1996, the Watershed Association has worked to conserve the lands and waterways that surround the spring, advocated for state-wide public policies, engaged in legal battles to curb over pumping, formed local and regional partnerships, and developed mentorship initiatives for youth. Ellen and David’s stories are fortifying for those who draw strength from sacred places in nature as well as uplifting for those acting to protect what they love for future generations.
Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Anne Carol Mitchell
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss
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