💧 Good News in Water ~ And How You Can Help Water Get Legal Rights

Well friends, After a short hiatus to travel and tend to life, I've been happily enjoying getting back into the swing of content creation, and guest-speaking on various podcasts, and giving lots of Biowater Harmonization sessions with scalar waves. The new season of the Water is Life podcast launches soon, and I have guests lined up that I can't wait to share with you. Keep an eye out for new YouTube videos landing soon, too. I know how dreary and disheartening it can be to witness the state of the world lately. So from here forward, I'm opening every one of these newsletters with water WINS; uplifting, genuinely good news about Water, along with the calls to action that let us be part of those good changes ourselves. And, of course, your inside scoop on deals, discounts, and events. Without further ado, let's dive in.  Nearly 40,000 Acres of the Scott River Headwaters Are Going Home The California State Water Resources Control Board voted on July 24th to fund the return of nearly 40,000 acres of ancestral territory to the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, covering the headwaters of the tributaries feeding the Scott River in the Klamath Basin. A zero-interest $25 million loan from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund makes it possible, saving the Tribe $11 million over thirty years. It's the largest land back deal in the country ever completed in a single transaction  Headwaters are where a river's temperature gets set, where sediment enters or doesn't, where the shade keeping salmon alive stands or gets cut. Quartz Valley plans to decommission roads, protect shade vegetation, restore wetlands, and use cultural burning, all aimed at the Scott River's two worst problems: she runs too warm and carries too much fine sediment. Lands and waters belong in the hands of the only humans on earth with a proven track record of preserving and evolving them over thousands of years: Traditional Ecological Knowledge keepers. Chairman Leonard Lincoln: "For a Tribe that was once terminated and subsequently confined to just 200 acres, reclaiming nearly 40,000 acres of our ancestral territory is a monumental victory." So let's all raise a collective glass of cheers and sigh of relief for these #landback and #waterback victories ️ Double Helix Water: 20% Off Storewide Code 20AUG, storewide, subscriptions excluded. Double Helix is stable Water clusters produced through a specific pressure-and-temperature process, yielding a solid-phase ordered Water that persists in solution. Most transient structuring collapses back into bulk Water within picoseconds. This holds, and it has the physical chemistry literature to show it. It's what I recommend when someone wants the most conservative, most measurable entry point into structured Water, or when someone wants the very best skincare. Their face creams, containing DHW, are all I've used on my face for years, and I'm hooked. I literally don't remember the last time I ever had a breakout. Find them here.   Europe Is About to Ask a Million People Whether a River Can Hold Rights The European Commission registered a European Citizens' Initiative in May called Rights for Nature: Empower Citizens to Represent and Protect Ecosystems. Signature collection opens this autumn, and it needs one million signatures across at least seven EU member states to legally oblige the Commission and Parliament to consider the proposal. It asks for rights of nature in EU law through a directive or regulation, with ecosystems recognized as living entities holding the right to exist, to regenerate, and to be restored. Campaigners from the Netherlands, Poland (for the River Oder), Germany, Italy, and France have already assembled at the European Parliament. If you're in the EU, sign up at rightsfornature.eu to be notified the moment collection opens. That signature is ten of the highest-leverage seconds available to you this year. Everyone else can share the link with someone who holds an EU passport. Jan van de Venis, Head of Legal at the Rights of Nature Foundation, told the Water Diplomat on August 13th that the standard objection (endless litigation, stalled projects) runs backward from the evidence. When the Crown planned a bridge across the Whanganui River, its legal personhood forced the Crown and the Māori guardians to design it together around the river's health, and Māori representatives celebrated the opening with a haka. Almost all the momentum is municipal. In France, after Mayor Anne Hidalgo made the Seine an honorary citizen of Paris, the council petitioned Parliament, sparking a national proposal for the whole basin.  Become the Guardian of Your Local River (Closes Today) Paul Powlesland, the barrister who has spent five years restoring London's River Roding, is running his River Restoration course through Advaya, discounted to £149 with code RIVERS through today, webinar replay free until the same deadline. Eight modules: tree planting, Water quality monitoring, litter clearing, habitat creation, and the least glamorous and most important skill of all, building a community of people who keep showing up for one river. No ecological training required. The Yorkshire AQuA project, the Bulgarian spring-mappers, and the Mthinzima catchment initiative all started with people who weren't qualified and began anyway. advaya.life  Why Hydrogen Electrodes Fail One of the key distinguishing factors between high and low quality hydrogen machines is plated versus solid electrodes. On day one they perform about the same. A plated electrode is base metal under a thin platinum coat, and the difference shows at month six and year three, when the coating wears and the base metal starts participating in the electrolysis in ways it was never meant to. Molecular hydrogen therapy depends on producing H2 cleanly, without ozone or chlorine byproducts. An electrode degrading invisibly inside a sealed unit is the failure you can't see or taste. That's one of the many reasons why the Lourdes Hydrofix is the machine I trust most, as they use only the highest quality materials that last a lifetime.  New Video: What the Harvard Data Says About Hydration and COVID Mortality The last episode of the Root Cause series went up Monday, exploring the evidence proving that Dehydration was the SINGLEMOST unifying factor in covid mortality. This series has spent its whole run making one case from different angles: the chronic conditions we treat as separate malfunctions are really one systemic condition expressing itself in different ways in these bodies of water. Watch it here. Or as Dr. Batmanghelidj said (paraphrasing), "the body is just a sophisticated system of thirst signals disguised as disease symptoms. Stop treating thirst with medication"  Drought Doesn't Add Forever Chemicals. It Removes the River. Kirin Furst, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and co-director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory, said this month: "Under lower flow conditions, which you see in a drought, you can see an increase in PFAS concentrations." The PFAS load entering a river stays roughly constant, coming off the same industrial sites, the same wastewater outfalls, the same treated biosolids on the same fields. What changes seasonally is how much Water carries it. Halve the flow in a dry August and you've roughly doubled the concentration reaching the intake. The report your utility mails once a year averages a wet spring and a dry August, and those are two different rivers. So call your Water system and ask what's been detected in your area this season, and confirm your filter carries certification for PFAS reduction specifically. Taste-and-chlorine certification is a different standard doing a different job. For my top recommended water filters, check here.   Six States, One Week of Boil Advisories St. Louis went under a precautionary boil advisory at 5am Monday after storms cut power at the Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant and pressure dropped across dozens of neighborhoods. No contamination was detected. It's the second pressure event there since June 30th. Same five days: Fancy Gap and Jonesville in Virginia, Hillsborough in North Carolina, Rockdale and Henry counties in Georgia. Water privatization ALWAYS leads to poorer quality water, eventually. And I'm sorry to say it, but this is a preview of what's to come. So please make sure that you have a plan in place for your water, and that of your family, community, and those you serve.  What Happens When an Aquifer Collapses Large parts of California's Sacramento Valley crossed into mostly irreversible ground compaction during the 2020 to 2022 drought, with some areas sinking as much as 50 centimeters, roughly 20 inches, in a single year after 2021. The High Plains Aquifer keeps posting multi-foot annual declines in some districts. An aquifer isn't an underground lake. There's no cavern down there. It's Water living in the pore spaces between grains of sand, gravel, and clay, and it's structural. It holds those grains apart. Pump water out faster than she returns and the clay collapses into the space she occupied, the pores close, and the ground above drops. That storage is finished, because the room itself is gone. Refill it with the wettest winter on record and the Water has nowhere to go. Water isn't "stored" in the earth. She's holding the earth open. If you're on well Water or in an over-drafted basin, your local groundwater sustainability agency holds public meetings that probably almost nobody attends. Showing up is disproportionately powerful precisely because that room is usually empty. And it's even more fun if you bring a group of girlfriends who all care, and make have a brunch date afterwards :)  In the Studio As I'm booking my next round of guests for the new season of the Water is Life podcast, I'd love to hear from you ~ Who would you like to see on the show? Which conversations would you be most excited to hear?  In Closing: Stop Imagining the Apocalypse From the Guardianship 28 Day Water Workbook: "Let's stop imagining the apocalypse and start imagining the utopia we know is possible. What kind of world do you want to live in? How is Water treated in the world at large? How devoted are you to giving your time, energy, and attention to bring this world of possibility into reality?" Forty thousand acres of headwaters returned to the people who know them. A bridge opened with a haka because the river had a seat at the table. All of it is people who decided Water has standing and behaved accordingly until the law caught up. Ten minutes this week: Get to know your local watershed and remember that you belong to it. No one owns water, but water creates and enlivens and governs us all. We BELONG to the waters that give us life, as we are only borrowing these drops of water called human bodies from the watershed from one lifetime. Then our waters go right back into the hydrological cycle, carrying the vibrations we cultivated during our life with it. So find your closest river, and go acknowledge that she gives you the blood in your veins. Go thank the actual river, aquifer, spring, or snowpack your tap draws from. Find her on a map, learn what threatens her and who's already fighting for her, then send this to one person in that same watershed. Standing begins with somebody willing to speak on her behalf, and the only qualification is deciding to. Be well and be water my friend, Isabel Friend