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What are the challenges we face around water in Western Canada?What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights?
Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals and plants that all depend on this precious and endangered resource.
Essays from scholars, activists, environmentalists, and human rights advocates illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta, including the right to access clean drinking water, the competing demands of the resource development industry and Indigenous communities, and the dwindling supply of fresh water in the face of human-caused climate change.
Statements from community organizations detail the challenges facing watersheds, and the actions being taken to mitigate these problems. With a special focus on Environmental and Indigenous issues, Water Rites explores how deeply water is tied to human life.
These essays are complemented by full-colour portfolios of work by contemporary painters, photographers, and installation artists who explore our relation to water. Reproductions of historical paintings, engravings and film stills demonstrate how water has shaped our country's cultural imaginary from its beginnings, proving that water is a vital resource for our lives and our imaginations.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rethinking our Relations to Water
Jim Ellis
Embodying Kinship Responsibilities In and Through Nipi (Water)
Michelle Daigle
Petrography and Water: Artist's Statement and Portfolio
Warren Cariou
Women, Water, Land: Writing from the Intersections
Helen Knott
Tanya Hartnett: The Poetics and Politics of Scarred/Sacred Water
Nancy Tousley
Y2Y: Conserving Headwaters
Jodi Hilty, Aerin Jacob, Hilary Young, Kelly Zenkewich
Elbow River Watershed Partnership
Flora Giesbrecht
Confluence: Artist's Statement and Portfolio
Leslie Sweder
Indigenous Water Rights and Global Warming in Alberta
David K. Laidlaw
Watershed+: Rethinking Pulblic Art
Ciara McKeown
Swimming in Systems
Josée Méthot and Amy Spark
Glorie à l'Eau (Glory to Water) by Alberta Tessier
Charles Tepperman
Water Rights/Water Justice
Adrian Parr
Appendix A: UN Declaration on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
Appendix B: UN Declaration the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
