Watering the West
Links to a work-in-progress documentary feature film, starring the Cachela Poudre River, which is at the center of the western water wars.
Links to a work-in-progress documentary feature film, starring the Cachela Poudre River, which is at the center of the western water wars.
The Bellagio casino glimmers
above a round blue lake.
Outside the Tropicana
waterfalls pour over fake rocks.
All night under the desert moon
the profligate water splashes,
sparkling like silver coins.
Four hundred miles south
three braceros lie down to die
beside empty plastic bottles.
On January 12, 2019, Western Friend conducted an interview with several members of the Quaker Oaks Farm (QOF) community.
On managing water resources in Honduras.
Dear Friends: Klamath Falls (Oregon) Friends Church is a big supporter of Friendly Water for the World. Beginning in 2015, they have been supporting three community groups who have ensured clean water for some 60,000 people and have become entirely self-sufficient in the process.
Dear Friends, especially Friends ages 12-18: You are invited to attend our Spring Youth Service Learning Camp at Quaker Oaks Farm in Visalia, CA, from April 10-14, 2017 (Monday – Friday). Come explore and learn about the Land, Water, and Indigenous People of Pa’an. We will trace the source of our water upstream and consider how we can all be Water Protectors.
Considering Water:
I settled deep into my body
feeling my way into prayer
for the waters of Japan.
And the waters there, so injured
by the radiation they have absorbed
while helping humans harness atomic energy
to power all manner of uses,