OPINION: 'The second pathway involves a shift in how we view water - a shift toward water stewardship,' writes Kristen Wolfe, coordinator of the Sustainable Water Network.
The public must be part of the solutions conversation about our water crisis.
People are also reading… Arizona streams, rivers and springs are drying up, mostly due to overuse. Water’s value is defined by dollars and acre-feet and is dammed, channeled and piped to accommodate fixed-quantity water rights. This current management path reduces the value of water to what is needed now — for human uses — with no regard for the health of the stream/spring or the other beings that depend on these water sources. Water became a commodity to be sold and moved for profit.
Water stewardship looks at water as a whole, the interconnections of ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial streams, springs, watersheds and groundwater. Human uses/needs are a part of the whole and must be balanced with the health of the watershed, the health of the system as a whole. Stewardship management would not allow the public’s water to be managed out of existence.
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