2012-02-07T07:12:33Z http://blog.waterculture.org/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:blog.waterculture.org,2010-11-17:3979106 jerry http://www.axleart.com 2010-11-17T16:15:44Z 2010-11-17T16:15:44Z what I hold valuable in life is more often gathered through experience then through didactic methods. <br /> Experiencing beauty or wonder is ill defined but once having that experience it is cherished.<br /> I believe that having the experience of beauty, in situ or through art will engender the kind of respect it takes to take an active role in supporting more appreciation and ultimately conservation.<br /> <br /> By the way, I love all the links you provided, very exciting tag:blog.waterculture.org,2010-08-12:3420792 P M http://pmpoetwriter.blogspot.com/ 2010-08-12T17:45:33Z 2010-08-12T17:45:33Z Water is life.<br />We are mostly water.<br />Water is life.<br />Beautiful rainbow! tag:blog.waterculture.org,2010-07-05:3290515 Robin M. Wright http://www.robinmwright.com 2010-07-06T05:31:35Z 2010-07-06T05:31:35Z Indigenous peoples often associate the river waters with ancestral power, the bones of the ancestors, and sacred instruments that are hidden at the bottoms of these rivers. At the same time, the bottom of the river is a hiding-place for sorcerers to store their poison. Water came into existence at the beginning of the world; before that there was no water flowing in the world. Not sure yet, but it had to do with women's menstruation. Will find ourt more soon and post it...rmw tag:blog.waterculture.org,2010-05-21:3123286 Jesse Roach 2010-05-21T22:56:14Z 2010-05-21T22:56:14Z Well put. I have been arguing with myself and others for years that as much as I would like to, I cannot come up with a reason why I shouldn't waste resources as fast as I can. The argument goes something like this: we are headed for a bottleneck, and the resources available on the other side of the bottleneck are the key. And we are reactive not proactive, so if I can expand my footprint before the bottleneck, and speed the onset of the bottleneck in which presumably we figure out how to stop consumptive growth, then decrease it on the other side of the bottleneck, we will have more resources to utilize in that enlightened state! I use it to justify my irrigation from a ditch in Albuquerque for a green yard, but have a lot more trouble with it when it comes to nonrenewable resources. I actually don't like the fact that it is a reasonable argument, but no one has been able to talk me out of it. tag:blog.waterculture.org,2010-05-18:3107765 Andrew 2010-05-18T15:03:07Z 2010-05-18T15:03:07Z I also live in Santa Fe and am really glad to see this issue raised. I often wonder about this while starting a load of laundry or doing the dishes, and have been frustrated by the lack of options available to me as a citizen who would like to see our river made of water rather than sand and shopping carts. <br /> I would be interested to see more analysis of your statement that this is an 'exceptional case which proves the rule' as i am not convinced that this is true. It seems that the same paradox - conserve in the home to increase the number of demands on a source - could be applied to aquifers, another resource being dried up and sold off in direct proportion to the conservation measures taken by cities such as Albuquerque and Rio Rancho (cities whose economic viability seems to be tied to growth in the same way that a Ponzi schemes links these two). <br /> At the Water Dialogue meeting a few months ago, i remember that you were part of a conversation about shifting the focus of water conservation away from per-capita use and toward net-use by a municipality. It seems to me that this sort of reporting could be bring more transparency to this issue and i would like to see this shift occur in the conversation about water use in New Mexico and throughout the arid west.