Testing İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #1 – with Li An Phoa

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Testing İstanbul's Waters: Thirst Talk #1 – with Li An Phoa

In this first episode Erik meets up with researcher and activist Li An Phoa, who walked 15.000 kilometers in the past 10 years to mobilise all stakeholders involved in the well being of rivers. A talk about the precious 2% of fresh, drinkable water there is on this planet.

Cited references

• Drinkable Rivers and the role that the Rupert river in Québec, Canada played in mobilising Li An Phoa
  drinkablerivers.org/our-story/
• De Drinkbare Maas Afl. 1-3 (NPO Start, De Boeddhistische Blik)
  www.npostart.nl/de-boeddhistische…3-2020/KN_1713433
• De Nieuwe Waterweg
  www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/water/vaarweg…euwe-waterweg
• Francesco Careri, Walkscapes. Walking as an aesthetic practice, Culicidae Architectural Press : 2017)
  culicidaearchitecturalpress.com/careri-walkscapes/
• To walk, Rebecca Solnit writes, is to take a “subversive detour.” See Solnit Rebecca, Wanderlust: a history of walking, Verso: 2002. (See also from the same author the great A Field Guide to Getting Lost).
  www.newyorker.com/recommends/read/…y-rebecca-solnit
• Following complaints from citizens, İstanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu recently took up the task of restoring and reactivating the city’s fountains, çesmes.
  pluriverse.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/istanbul
• Mayors Network Report
  drinkablerivers.org/download/mayors…2f0ab1618757154
• Only 2% of the water on the planet is drinkable
  www.worldwildlife.org/industries/fre…hwater-systems
• Clean up your personal care : an insightful infographic design by Angela Morelli
  thewaterweeat.com/
• Riverbed (miscellaneous online definitions)
  The ground over which a river usually flows.
  The channel in which a river flows or has flowed.
  The area between the banks of a river usually covered by water.
  The path where a river runs, or where a rivers once ran.
• “An optimist for the Twenty-Second Century. Meeting Arne Naess High Up in the Mountains.” This interview by eco artist Jan van Boeckel, published on Open Air Philosophy, was held as part of the production of the film “The Call of the Mountain: Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement” (1997). Within the field of environmental philosophy, Arne Naess is perhaps most known for coining the term “deep ecology”, an approach to environmental problems that looks for its roots deep in the structure of our western society and the world views that guide it.
• openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/upl…VanBoeckel.pdf

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