Moving
Waters Project coordinator, Nancy Dallett,
On hopes for the moving waters project:
Arizona Canal, south side, looking west from
64th Street in Scottsdale,
Arizona. Although the waters of the Salt and the Colorado are
visible to us
in our canals, we don't take the time to talk much about where
the water
comes from, the story of how it got here, and whether we diminish
the supply
and quality for people downstream. I hope some component of the
Moving
Waters project will increase our knowledge and understanding of
the river and
inspire us to change how we act.
I
live in Scottsdale, Arizona, and yet three mornings a week I walk
and run on the banks of a canal partially filled with water from
the Colorado River.
How can that be possible? Because we live in a society that
chooses to pump the river water over 200 miles from the real Colorado
to nourish life in Central Arizona.
On each and every
walk and run I'm moved by the enormity of the engineering involved
and grateful that I can move along the open infrastructure of
the canal system. Water from the Colorado: we move it, it moves
us.
I've worked for several years to secure funding, create
a traveling exhibit and radio documentary, and coordinate programming.
Now I hope to hear from others.
