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Water Story: Mizu Nomihodai
Some of you may have heard this story before. But it impacted me in ways I feel to this day so. I guess that’s okay. Happy World Water Day — In November of 2009, as I neared the end of Mizu Nomihodai...
View ArticleWater Story: Little Hubris on the Prairie
by Heather Hawke. — Every profession has a uniform. Mine, as a field biologist, most closely resembles a bag lady’s. I wear it to prevent dehydration. The Bedouins got it right – you’ll lose the least...
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by Linda McLaren Water. I took it for granted as a kid. It was always there, unlike the people that came and went in my life. Water- cool, clean, and always willing to fill a glass. It soothed the hot...
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by Jen McQuiston In 1999, I had the privilege of working in Ghana, Africa, for 3 months as part of the World Health Organization’s Polio Eradication program. I spent a glorious 12 weeks visting the...
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Water Story: Tiny Bottles
by Amber Lin Amber.When my son was 10 months old, my husband and I toted him over to India so that he could meet his great-grandfather before it was too late. I knew that we couldn’t drink the water...
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Water Story: Time Travel
by Rowenna Miller Fetching water the time traveller's way.The pump is perhaps an eighth of a mile away. I’ve made the trek three times today already, once for a fire bucket to keep by the fire for...
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Water Story: Burning Skies
by Linda McLaren We were told soon after we arrived that it would happen. The dams were running dry. Rivers too. We were in a drought with hot summer days burning in the forties, and skies that burned...
View ArticleWater Story: Long White Clouds
by Linda McLaren There’s a place where the earth rumbles, where faces are drawn in lines the color of the sea. The clouds hang low. You can reach up and touch them, if you remembered how to do that...
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Water Story: Swimming in the River
by Christine Finlayson The Smith River runs through Jedediah Smith State Park in northern California, just over the border from Brookings, Oregon. Our first glimpse of this oasis came after six days of...
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