To SITE Santa Fe, to a panel about (local) water resources - in conjunction with the exhibition Going With the Flow, co-curated by Lucy Lippard, who was chairing the event, and who was her usual sharp and vibrant self and held the discussion together. What was great about it, above all, was its emphasis on the local - on the distinctive water systems of Northern New Mexico, including the 400 year old + use of acequias, or irrigation channels (may I recommend this very recent PBS film on them?), for example, but also the efforts that the City of Santa Fe is making to conserve and store water; and also the potentially terrible effects of the recent Supreme Court ruling which has stripped so much water from its protections. I know other SC decisions have received much more publicity, but the outcry here and elsewhere should continue to be loud and forceful - this affects 90% of NM water channels, for a start ...
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