In her new book, Water Always Wins, environmental journalist Erica Gies says stop resisting, just go with the flow.
The advance of the climate crisis, marked by its extremes — droughts or deluges, fires or floods — makes abundantly clear the human habit of trying to contain and control water isn’t working.
But an array of microbes, animals and communities enjoy beneficial relationships with this vital element by harmonizing with water’s wishes, Gies discovered. “[But] I met all these people around the world seeking to restore, protect or re-create in some way wetlands, floodplains, high-altitude mountain meadows or forests that generate rain — all the things that slow water on the land,” Gies said.
“For a long time, California had this sort of political attitude that they were dealing with two separate sources of water that could be regulated independently, or in the case of groundwater, not regulated [at all].”But some of the world’s most insightful water engineers are familiar to most Canadians, she said.
The skill of these once ubiquitous mammals has been recognized by U.S. authorities, who on various occasions in the past parachuted beavers into wilderness areas to restore watersheds. The recent devastation from flooding across B.C., and Abbotsford in particular, last November on the heels of record-breaking rains is a case study of how primarily relying on built solutions to contain water will be limited or increasingly expensive in the era of climate change, Gies said.
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