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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: ‘Recalibrating’ our relationships with water: Author Interview with Erica Gies
Description: On today's episode, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus talks with author Erica Gies about the slow water movement.
In her new book, “Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge,” Gies writes about how development choices and centralized infrastructure have exacerbated the water extremes many regions of the world are experiencing as the planet warms. She also writes about the “slow water” movement and how communities can shape solutions and adapt to the changing world.
In conversation, Gies also discusses the dominant culture’s historic shift away from observing and understanding how water wo...