If you are feeling a bit adventurous and want to think about water a little differently, try investigating the work of Masaru Emoto. Emoto photographed ice crystals of water in bottles that had come from different locations, exposed the bottles to different sounds, and had words typed onto paper facing inwards to the bottle.
What he found was that water subjected to negative emotions showed an incoherent structure, whereas water subjected to calm and loving influences revealed a coherent and integrated structure. His photographs show that human vibrational energy, thoughts, ideas, music and pollution directly affects the molecular crystalline structure of water.
So next time you are out in a river, lake or even the bathtub, think about how the water around you can hold the resonance of your thoughts and feelings. This work certainly takes us into a new realm of river restoration and there is even an Emoto.app you can download from Masaru Emoto website – this is certainly mind expanding!
Siwan
Water: Science and Solutions for Australia provides the latest information about the status of Australia’s water resources and their future prospects, the many values we hold for water, and the potential for using water more effectively to meet the growing demands of cities, farmers, industries, and the environment. The book has been edited by Dr Ian Prosser and I was fortunate enough to help out with the development of the publication when the team were planning how to approach this topic.
The publication draws upon the scientific literature to provide a broader audience with a clear picture of the water challenges and prospects facing Australia. Written by scientists and practitioners it seeks to provide a bridge from the peer-reviewed scientific literature to a broader audience of society, while providing the depth of science that this complex issue demands and deserves.
The book has been written so that it is accessible to all and can be used to underpin decisions that need to be made in business, in government, and in general to respond to the challenges of water resource management.
You can download the book from the CSIRO Publishing website as:
Hard copies of Water: Science and Solutions for Australia are also available on our CSIRO PUBLISHING website. Includes ISBN and full bibliographic information.
Many congratulations to the CSIRO team that put this publication together, in particular, Ian Prosser, Mary Mulcahy and Bill Young.
Siwan
Congratulations to the MDBA for launching their new blog ‘Free Flow’. It is hoped that the blog will be a place for open online conversations with the MDBA where anyone can ask questions and discuss the draft Basin Plan. When launching the blog the MDBA went on the record as saying:
“We want to get real conversations going. This blog is a different approach to what we’ve done in the past and people’s comments will go straight up without our seeing them. But we will get involved in the conversation.”
Please let others know about the blog and encourage people who wish to contribute to ‘join in the conversation’.
The blog is available at http://freeflow.mdba.gov.au.
Siwan
Over the past few years I have been fortunate enough to be part of an Expert Panel providing advice to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority on a portfolio of work examining risks to managing water resources in the MDB. The Risk Assessment Section within MDBA’s Natural Resources Management Division has funded a suite of projects to investigate:
- risks driven by climate change (eg: drought, bushfire, salinity dynamics);
- risks relating to catchment processes (eg: forest hydrology, afforestation, invasive species, floodplain dynamics, land use); and
- risks arising from direct water interception and use (eg: current management arrangements).
I have read all the reports from this research invesment and the findings and knowledge gained from these projects are enlightening. We can now understand the likely impacts of these risks, the likelihood of their occurrence and their consequences. This should enable us to develop better management strategies for the future.
We have provided a brief summary of each of these reports and a hotlink through to the complete research final report, we hope you get a lot out of reading, distilling and applying this knowledge to your situation. We are also very happy to put more links into any other resources you think are useful for this topic, which ties in very well with the theme for the Australian Stream Management Conference 2012 of Managing for Extremes. Click here to go through to our new managing risks resources.
Siwan
After just over two years of very intensive activity, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP) is coming to an end, having successfully delivered its intended outcomes on time and under budget. The final edition of HNRRP e-news reflects on some of the major achievements from the seven HNRRP projects and celebrates the great work that has been done to improve the health of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment. The Hawkesbury-Nepean river system frames the western edge of the Sydney Basin and is one of New South Wales’ most important natural assets.
If you are feeling a bit adventurous and want to think about water a little differently, try investigating the work of Masaru Emoto. Emoto photographed ice crystals of water in bottles that had come from different locations, exposed the bottles to different sounds, and had words typed onto paper facing inwards to the bottle.
News, Research | Siwan Lovett | 
2 April 2012 1:04 pm | 
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