We see close to home and far afield the effects water can have on land, people, flora and fauna, and human infrastructure—both when there is an abundance of it, and when there is not enough.
Please join Cook Memorial Library, Green Mountain Conservation Group, and Chocorua Lake Conservancy via Zoom on Wednesday, January 22, at 6:30 PM, for a Climate & Community Book Discussion. We’ll discuss the book Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge, by Erica Gies. Winner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water. Modern civilizations tend to speed water away, erasing its slow phases on the land. Gies reminds us that water's true nature is to flex with the rhythms of the earth: the slow phases absorb floods, store water for droughts, and feed natural systems. Figuring out what water wants—and accommodating its desires within our human landscapes—is now a crucial survival strategy.
Erica Gies is an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer who writes about water, climate change, plants, and animals for Scientific American, the New York Times, Nature, the Atlantic, and other outlets.
This free program is part of the CML/CLC series “Climate & Community.” Please register in advance above. Copies of the book are available at Cook Library.
Banner image: Galen Kilbride