Water People Stories 3

Written By Progressive-Street

31 March 2024

Here come more Water People Stories from around the world. The first set of stories were published in May 2024. Here are some new and old stories about water from a project about exploring the cultural significance of wetlands and the stories of people and their water. During my travels worldwide, I share the stories of the people I meet, highlighting the importance of water in our daily lives.

I document the normal daily routines and changes and how water crises affect people. By analyzing the connection between people and their water, I aim to draw attention to the cultural significance of rivers and wetlands and the links, or missing connections, to freshwater.

Ultimately, my goal is to help societies understand and transform how they see, value, and impact freshwater in rivers and wetlands.

 
 
 
 
 
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My water and people stories are my personal story. I was born in a former wetland, strongly modified by humans over 2000 years or more. My life as a scientific researcher was focused on freshwater wetlands, tropical floodplains, and their use by people.

I have been photographing landscapes, water, people, wildlife, plants, forests all my life. I am a biologist, researcher with a PhD in tropical biology and floodplain ecology. I have seen many tropical countries all over the world and always visited the wetlands.

Today, I go back in memory and read my diaries. Every day I wrote what I saw, what I thought, whom I talked to and what I learned. The world is changing and over the decades, I recorded some of this change.

I was born in 1965, and in 1986, as a young biologist, I made my dream come true and went to the Amazon for the first time in my life. I went back there several dozens of times, and I lived there for many years

Today, I am back in Europe where I was born, but I am still closely connected to my friends, colleagues and people who struggle with water all over the world.

Let me take you on this journey through the wetlands and the people I met in almost 6 decades.

This project explores the cultural significance of wetlands and the stories of people and their water.

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