River walk with Maron.
I keep reading and thinking more and more that we should all get more intimate with our watersheds. Maybe the earth should be organized by watershed, rivers. Natalie Diaz's writing^1 got me visiting the nearest rivers more often, and Andreas Malm^2 has me thinking organization, politics(real policy, survival scale).

- ^1The First Water is the Body, Natalie Diaz
- https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/the-first-water-is-the-body/
- https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/poem-a-day-natalie-diaz
- ^2 _Fossil Capital_ by Andreas Malm
> Peasants were tied together in what Mikhail terms ‘communities of water’. They adhered to ‘the physical properties of the liquid’s movement, viscosity, and flow rate’ and
> > the notion that the welfare of the whole always trumped the interests and desires of the few. This ideal of cooperative and collective responsibility arose from the fact that, throughout the countryside, scores of villages relied on the function of a single set of irrigation features for their entire supply of water – some combination of a canal, a dam, a section of the Nile, a waterwheel, a sluice gate, and other irrigation works. In these hundreds of ecosystems organized around the shared usage of water and irrigation features, the actions of a few directly affected the welfare of the whole community.34
> Consequently there had to be some protocol for conflict resolution, usually of an informal nature...
> Spanning wide distances, similar phenomena have been charted in Yemen and Peru: close coordination between upstream and downstream users, community assemblies, mechanisms for conflict resolution, customary norms of fairness in operation up to the present day...
> What are the requirements for the successful management of ‘common-pool resources’ such as water for irrigation?

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