Reflecting in gratitude: Talking Water 2024 As we emerge into a new year, we are looking back at our Talking Water community conversations. Talking Water continues to be a sacred space for dreaming into futures, where we get to reimagine our relations with water through conversation and story with water activists from around the world. These conversations were offered to the

Report of Walks of Resilience & Accountability: PAYAHUUNADÜ A collaboration between Owens Valley Indian Water Commission & Walking Water INTRO After two years of holding Walks of Resilience and Accountability in Los Angeles we all decided to walk again in Payahuunadü - home of the Nüümü (Paiute) and Newe (Shoshone) people. Located on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada

Being Present with L.A.’s Water Story by Anne C. Mitchell, April 5, 2024 “More than what you call the capturing or retention of these waters, is speaking up to give the waters their rights. They need to flow freely. We need to stop taking the water from up north, which means we need to figure out how to stop damming up our

LA WALKS: NOV 2023 REPORT Context  In collaboration with the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission (OVIWC) and Annie Mendoza,  Tongva community member, we held the 4th series of Walks of Resilience and Accountability along the Los Angeles (LA) river in November. Our intention with this series of walks was and continues to be to invite elected officials, community members, representatives

PATSIATA Kathy Bancroft "It's wonderful seeing Patsiata with all that water on it. I always visualize what it would look like with water. I've seen it once before in my lifetime, back in 1968/1969, it was about three-quarters full. But I don't think I appreciated it the way I appreciate it now, because we've worked so hard to try to

LA WALKS OF RESILIENCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT - APRIL 2023 By The Walking Water Collective We just completed our third set of day walks in LA, in collaboration with the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission (OVIWC). We walked with many questions, including: What is our current focus? What is our responsibility to and for these  waters? How do we take