Dialoguing around Water
“…water that is everywhere before it is somewhere; water that is in rain before it is in rivers, soaks before it flows, spreads before it gathers, blurs before it clarifies; water that is ephemeral, transient, uncertain, interstitial, chaotic, omnipresent….” Design in the Terrain of Water by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
Water is life. The reason we have life on Earth is because there is water unlike say Venus or Jupiter. So what does water mean to each of us? Is water a part of us or are we a part of water? How do we think about water, what we do with it, how we treat it? Why are there so many conflicts around water – States fighting over a river (the Mhadei river dispute between Goa and Karnataka), development in conflict with the river by taking over its banks (NH 14 and the Sal in Goa, development on the floodplains of the Adyar river which led to the floods of 2015)? To discuss some of these questions and to identify what each of us can do with our own agency we propose to dialogue around water at Bookworm on Saturday 21st January . We will begin the dialogue at 5. 00 pm with a film – Ganga our National River is now our National Guilt and see where it takes us.
