Water News
June 24, 2006
Project Updates
The Green SOS Handbook - In 1997, Betsy Damon met Lu Hongyan (Redbird), a 26 year old woman who is passionate about environmental education. Redbird soon became overall director of the environmental programs at Sichuan University which is a required course for all undergraduates. Keepers of the Water funded her for $6,000 and, with her graduate students, she developed a handbook and website called GreenSOS (www.greensos.org). They spent two impressive years modeling environmental activism using Betsy as their inspiration.
Turtle Bay Arboretum, Redding, CA - After more than two years, the fountain is finished! It is a multi-functional water feature that aesthetically represents the mountains and earth, and the sources and uses of water.
The Edwards Aquifer - Government Canyon Park in San Antonio, TX. This project began in 2002 with a small group of activists inspired by Betsy Damon. It is now one of the most successful citizen efforts in the United States.
Urban Waterworks, Portland, OR - Twenty outdoor learning gardens that remediate and teach about water has become the new standard for schoolyards in Portland.
TongZhou Suburb of Beijing - The Beijing Planning Bureau now gives projects to Betsy for ecological model plans and designs. Her first was for TongZhou, a town of less than a million with a planned population of more than 3 million, whose water supply is already too little per capita. In Betsy’s plan, all the water is recycled and cleaned through a biological system which include solar aquatics and wetland aeration.
Fuzhou University Water Plan - As a design team member, Betsy Damon made sure that the water system was circulatory, interconnected and with natural filter systems -- and that the natural wetland be preserved.
Olympic Forest Park - Betsy has been working on the water system for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for five years. Her first step was to introduce a broad based, general education program in the water and planning bureaus of China that talked about sustainable, biological water systems. The next step was to participate on a design team. For this step, Betsy invited Environmental Design and Management from Canada (Margo Young, CEO) as her key collaborator. Together they designed the only sustainable water plan for the Olympics.
Jane Goodall Institute - Jane Goodall has asked Keepers of the Waters to develop a proposal for a low cost biological water remediation plan for Tanzania.
May 14, 2010
News from Betsy Damon and Keepers of the Waters – May 2010
December 30, 2009
Happy New Year (To Be Alive is to Have Water)
December 06, 2009
Composting toilet as a holiday gift?
August 13, 2009
reSources: Saving Living Systems (A report fromTibet/China)
June 30, 2009
reSources: Saving Living Systems (Hello Dear Friends)
June 02, 2009
"reSources: Saving Living Systems"
September 15, 2008
Update from China, September 15th
September 06, 2008
Great news from Keepers of the Waters and Betsy
August 19, 2008
Betsy Leaving For China
January 12, 2008
News and Projects
November 21, 2007
We Could Have Such a Beautiful World
December 18, 2006
Water - The Link in Our Life
May 23, 2006
Betsy in China
November 03, 2003
Water Exploratoriums in Oregon, Public Art in Beijing
August 30, 2003
Volunteer Opportunities in China
June 30, 2003
New Keepers of the Waters Online Network up!
June 30, 2003
Edwards Aquifer Park Design
June 30, 2003
Water and Art Exploratorium at elementary school
June 30, 2003
News from China
