Water In the West by https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka Andrew Winkelmann 11/17/20 en-us 2020-11-17 21:43:47 UTC 2020-11-17 22:53:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Part 1: Why do you think this Colorado River video was done in the first person, with the river speaking for itself? Did the first person perspective surprise you (or not), and why? Did you know that treating rivers like people under the law is a legal strategy being used around the world to protect rivers? What are some of the ethical implications of ascribing “personhood” to rivers? awinkelmann3 https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934151298 I would guess that the Colorado River video was don in person in order to create a video that allows people to imagine themselves in the environment. In first person a viewer can perhaps feel more like they are the one experiences these things, and in this case it could help them feel more familiar with the river. I wouldn't say I was surprised because I have seen many videos in first person, and I understand the choice to do the video in first person. I did not know that the river was treated like a person under the law in some legal strategies. I like that they are trying to do this though. By giving person hood to a river you are effectively giving the river the same moral consideration to the river as a human. Personifying a river means we must find a way to justly treat the river. ]]> 2020-11-17 21:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934151298 Part 2: What aspects of your everyday landscape do you take for granted as “natural”? This may be on campus, at home, or somewhere else. Going further, do you know where your drinking water comes from? If you do know where your water comes from, how did you learn this information? If you don’t know where your water comes from, why don’t you? And would you call that an engineering success, an engineering failure, or something else entirely? What are some of the ramifications of not knowing where your drinking water comes from? awinkelmann3 https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934174765 In Golden, I have been taking the path of Clear Creek as natural but it has been channelized completely. I believe Golden gets most of its water from reservoirs that are filled up by water that would have gone into Clear Creek. I wouldn't be surprised if we also use water from west of the continental divide that was pumped through the Rockies. I came across this information by reading a book about the Colorado River and then got curious and looked it up on Google. I guess I would call it an engineering failure if the majority of people didn't know where their water came from. Water is a key resource and it is not infinite, droughts and lack of water have lead to some dire situations, and to start understanding how to use water efficiently you have to understand what the source of your water is. A ramification of not knowing where your water comes from is that you may forget the state that your sources of water are, and you can forget to use that water efficientyl ]]> 2020-11-17 21:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934174765 Part 3: Imagine a geographic scenario where the Colorado River ended in Southern California rather than across the United States border in entirely different country (Mexico). If the community of San Luis Rio Colorado were instead Los Angeles or San Diego, would the condition of the river’s delta be different? Why or why not? Work the concept of “environmental justice” into your answer. awinkelmann3 https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934220003 Well, I am not sure I understand the situation but I am just going to assume that the delta remains in the same place. If so, I would say that yes the condition of the Delta would be different because with more people, comes more transformation of the environment to things that we see as "natural" and water would be used to do this despite the Colorado River ending in the US. I also believe that this "New Los Angeles" would fight harder to have the Colorado reach the delta at the Gulf of California so they could actually use the water that once flowed to the delta, which would be just in my eyes.]]> 2020-11-17 22:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934220003 1) Why do we care about water in the West? Why does it fit into NHV? 2) What is the definition of "reconciliation ecology"? 3) What is the definition of "environmental justice"? awinkelmann3 https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934278482 1) We care about the Water in the West because it a vital resource used by millions of people. There are social, technical, and economic problems that come with things like this, and analyzing these problems fits right into the types of problems that NHV dives into. 
2) Reconciliation ecology is what humans do in order to keep nature and biodiversity a part of an area that is used by humans (cities, towns, earth, etc). 
3) Environmental Justice is the idea that nature and animals as fellow humans. This idea puts forth the idea of giving nature our moral consideration and keep nature in our moral sphere. ]]> 2020-11-17 22:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/awinkelmann3/tgtiq8ama6yp5rka/wish/934278482