https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6 NHV Week 13 en-us 2020-10-06 18:34:47 UTC 2020-11-19 19:20:50 UTC hello@padlet.com dmcmillion https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/807988195 The video was narrated in the first person in order to give the river a personal quality that allows us to feel pity for what we have done for it. It emphasizes that our over use of water will eventually cause a shortage for millions of people in the American West. It definitely caught me a little off guard to hear that it was narrated in this way, because rivers aren't really seen personified in a professional setting like school or business. I did not know that their personification is used as a legal strategy, but it makes sense because not many people think from the perspective of the river when considering water rights.]]> 2020-10-06 18:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/807988195 dmcmillion https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/808123727 One aspect of nature that I take for granted is the trees we see all around in Denver, Golden, and especially in my hometown in northeastern Colorado. It's basically a desert there; most of the farming is done on dry land because its about 30 miles from the Ogallala aquifer and about the same from any bodies of water that could be used for irrigation. On the South Platte river today, much of the floodplain is covered in cottonwood trees that stand out on the prarie. Looking at historical photos of the South Platte and of Golden Valley show a flat empty prarie with the rivers cutting through but no trees to be seen. It's easy to forget that a lot of the front range  once looked just as barren as the eastern plains do now. My hometown is pretty small, so our water comes from underground, and we have a water tower on the edge of town. It was just kind of common knowledge because a lot of people grew up with personal wells, but I think it is important for people to understand where their water is coming from. If you don't know where your water comes from, then the body of water that feeds you isn't being represented by its users, and may not be given the respect it needs when water diversion or storage projects are being implemented. ]]> 2020-10-06 19:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/808123727 dmcmillion https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/811774218 I imagine that it would be similar if the river did run through only the United States in that the environmental justice may still be unequal for those at the end of the basin, but hopefully the inequalities would not be as bad, since all the river analysis was done in the same country by the same group. I think that this would make the river more manageable.]]> 2020-10-07 20:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dmcmillion/489m2cq3nzzr8tn6/wish/811774218