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Creating New Paradigms For Protecting Fresh Water

By Steve Handwerker only 17% of rivers are free flowing and protected. Almost prevent the disruption of the natural rivers’ flow and hence
one-third of freshwater fish are threatened with extinction also impact the human communities that are in ecosystem
“Water, water everywhere and monitored populations of freshwater wildlife are down balance with these river beings. The Wild and Scenic Rivers
and not a drop to drink” is a about 85% since 1970. There is much need to build a Act from the ’60s established a system for permanently
famous literary line from the global framework to address such issues so rivers can have protecting America’s most beautiful and ecologically
work of Samuel Coleridge. permanent legal protection. Some awakened peoples are important rivers. Therefore, the focus on protecting land and
The rivers of the world, rising up against the detrimental developments in their local sea areas is now been expanded, by necessity, to consider and
especially Southwestern communities which pose a threat to rivers and fresh water protect the dynamic freshwater systems. These latter systems
Europe are amongst the supplies. For example, damming a river creates negative require their own strategies, like the Durable Freshwater
continent’s most intact impact on many levels. Ecosystems change above it from Protection Framework which protects rivers like those on the
sources of water that have escaped the centuries of damming flowing habitat to still water and organisms that depend Balkan Peninsula or water funds where human communities
and channeling that has reshaped and impacted most rivers on free flow up and down river are now blocked causing invest in the watersheds on which they depend for drinking
throughout Europe. It appears that rivers may hold an answer population loss and even extinction. water or irrigation. The “30X30” initiative calls for 30% of
to ensuring pure clean water supplies. As technologies improve and costs are reduced, the earth’s surface to be protected from development by 2030
Community and indigenous groups have been the most renewable sources of energy are being considered with and there is a push to include fresh water in that initiative.
impactful with help from international environmental lighter environmental impact than hydroelectric power. This Protecting fresh water also requires understanding
organizations in regard to protecting rivers and fresh water has created a momentum and an international energy agency the vulnerabilities involved such as agricultural runoff
supplies. Conservation strategies are generally land based predicts that by 2030 solar and wind capacity across global which impact not only human populations but also habitat
but that is insufficient to ensure clean water. Worldwide, regions will triple what it was in 2015. These measures would preservation. There is a paradigm shift that is needing to
happen and is happening under the surface of environmental
policies. This includes how we protect fresh water and how
we think and talk about fresh water! Nothing lives without
fresh water. Think about how YOU conserve and utilize fresh
water! It is a matter of survival.

Steven E. Handwerker Ph.D. D.div, RM
Board Certified Licensed Psychologist
50 years experience
www.IAAHW.org. REVISED. II
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