Slowing Water for a Greener Massachusetts
Climate Change has brought fiercer storms with devastating floods and long-lasting droughts that stressed and killed plants and animals. Once we controlled water. These days, water is in control and is harming us.
What if we changed our relationship with water to better understand its behavior? What if we were more respectful and asked, what does water want? Communities that have taken a less confrontational and more collaborative approach with water have created better places in which people are happier.
Read about four communities
The four communities, one suffering from flood damages, one losing groundwater to agriculture, one blaming water runoff from lawns for harmful algal blooms, and one keeping lawns without water and fertilizer while increasing wildflower and bee abundance with greater biodiversity, experienced a dramatic shift from a scarcity mindset to one of shared abundance. Arguments and the setting of priorities, tradeoffs, gave way to collaborative efforts, helping one another with quality-of-life benefits for everyone, even including what’s good for nature.
Rob's article
Working with climate change, we may literally set up a rainy-day fund measured in gallons of water. During extreme rainfalls property owners could pump water into the ground and be compensated with reduced water bills.
Residents are also compensated for storing carbon by the ton of new soil.
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