{"id":731,"date":"2018-03-13T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/?p=731"},"modified":"2018-03-13T06:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:12:01","slug":"seattle-could-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/03\/13\/seattle-could-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Could Learn a Thing or Two from India"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was shocked to learn about the intricate systems of rainwater harvesting in India.\u00a0 Not only that, but how long they have been place, some of the for hundreds of years.\u00a0 Anupam Mishra mentions in his TED talk titled The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting<\/em> that the reasons these systems have been in place for so long, in a place that sometimes see only 16 cm of rain water per year, is because of RESPECT.\u00a0 Respect from generation to generation to maintain the structures and not to upset the water collection areas, which we saw are just marked by statues.<\/p>\n

Here in Seattle we frequently think of ourselves a green community, a place where recycling is common, and treating the environment positively is encouraged.\u00a0 I live and used to work in a building that considers itself and is certified Built Green which doesn\u2019t sound as important after taking this class.\u00a0 It seems more like a corporate certification invented to sell apartments to individuals as consumers of sustainability.\u00a0 There are newer buildings in Seattle that have gone a step farther and make use of rainwater catchment systems, similar to the ones we see in Mishra\u2019s TED talk.\u00a0 After watching his talk and learning more about water harvesting I think Seattle can learn a lot from the people of the Golden Desert.\u00a0 The rain fall in Seattle on average is about 4 times that of The Golden Desert and they use that water for more than just irrigation.\u00a0 Imagine what we could do with our rain if we invested in it.\u00a0 Imagine what we could do if every place that saw the greatest rainfall worked together to take advantage of the rain that we take for granted and wish away?\u00a0 Could we help our close neighbors in California or places like Puerto Rico after the devastation of natural disasters?\u00a0 I leave you with an article from the economist which discusses some of these ideas.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21689985-can-coming-el-ni-o-end-californias-prolonged-drought-great-wet-hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was shocked to learn about the intricate systems of rainwater harvesting in India.\u00a0 Not only that, but how long they have been place, some of the for hundreds of years.\u00a0 Anupam Mishra mentions in his TED talk titled The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting that the reasons these systems have been in place for so long, in a place… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[342,343,277,340,339,114,75,341],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-8","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-india","tag-rain-catchment","tag-rainwater","tag-seattle","tag-sustainability","tag-ted-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}