Geschreven op 18 december 2025. Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.
This episode of Waterproof is all about how modern-day science and age-old indigenous knowledge can be used to solve today’s water crises. So, not one or the other but both, fused together to come up with solutions to our common and increasing problems.
I spoke to Julia Watson, the Australian-American landscape architect who just published a beautiful book on indigenous uses of water all over the world, which can – and should! – be hybridized with modern technology. And I met four water experts from all over the world, all of them members of the largest indigenous delegation ever to the 2025 Stockholm Water Week: a Maya from Mexico, a Fijian, a Sami woman from Sweden, and a native Hawaiian. What do they have in common? “I think the deep spiritual connection to nature, that’s what I’ve come to appreciate more,” said Milika Sobey of Fiji. “Each time I meet with indigenous people, that is brought home to me, that deep spiritual connection to nature.”
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