Journey Santa Fe with Sandra Postel

Sunday, 8 April 2018 - 11:00am
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
United States

The Santa Fe Watershed Association presents: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity.
With SANDRA POSTEL,  Director of the Global Water Policy Project and author of Replenish.

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not only are risky financially and environmentally, they often threaten social and political stability. What if the answer was not further control of the water cycle, but repair and replenishment?

Sandra Postel will take Journey Santa Fe around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, “sponge cities” are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding.

Free and open to the public.