[All] A Watershed moment? (Pun intended)

[Louisette Lanteigne]

My daughter finished reviewing documents at the National Archive that prove Aboriginal communities in Manitoba, completely isolated from communities in Quebec, shared concepts, shared ideas and visions in sync with one another in spite of physical separation. Reflected in art. Reflected in physical and intellectual knowledge. It is a real thing. String theory isn't a theory and there is no string. We are collective beings of a share consciousness together.
Indigenous people had to tap into that energy to survive. It's the magic of my grandfathers going miles out to sea where water meets the sky. View is the same all over for miles. No computers, no machines.  They knew where to drop the line to catch that type of fish. In the days before the radar. They could not even swim or read or write but they knew where in an ocean how to get a living so prosperous they retired at 55 for all the fish they caught.  How does a human have that knowledge: You feel it.  I always had it. Since baby. It's just a natural thing. At least I've always thought so. Didn't know no other way. 
The body projects and receives energy and it is receptive to concepts without limits to miles or to visuals. This idea of Federation of Watersheds is likely brewing up in Australia, Peru, England and I didn't look online or in a book or anywhere else to know that but it's a likely thing isn't it?  There is a global push for it happening. I'm feeling that. 
There is a need for me to relay this to you you all. That's where my roll is. I'm just the lady at the telegraph machine really. 

Lulu :0)
      From: Tony Maas <tony at maas-strategies.com>
 To: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com> 
Cc: "all at gren.ca" <all at gren.ca> 
 Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 1:53 PM
 Subject: Re: [All] A Watershed moment? (Pun intended)
   
Lulu:
First….get well!
Second…the idea of a federation or council of watershed organizations is on the minds of many, it seems. In January I facilitated a Canadian Water Network Students and Young Professionals workshop in Ottawa and this was one of the key recommendations they collectively developed. Those recommendations were not made public, for various reasons of attribution and the like, but the idea is certainly alive and well in conversations I am having with colleagues in the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) as we work on a project currently titled “Making the Federation Work for Water”.
Tony





On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com> wrote:
Hi folks!
I relayed this to Kevin but wanted to share this with the group too. 
I've been dealing with very bad pnumonia for about a month and a half. First antibiotics failed to stop the chest infections. I'm on the second set right now with the most powerful stuff they've got plus two codine tylonols to boot. Never the less, sleepless nights allowed me to come up with that brainstorm  that unfolded as I wrote it.  I have no clue on timeframe or the policy architecture to shape the logic and I'm a go with the flow thinker. I'm not fixated on having to do it, and I don't see the vision of me doing it yet but that idea of approaching issues based on Watershed wide is the fundamental thing that just clicked. 
This might actually be an idea for a National Water Strategy actually: The creation of a Watershed governance tier including a rep for every watershed to represent issues of ecological/economical/policy/sustainability based initiatives. 
That is what I really want to see as an ongoing thing. The EBR idea was a concept to get to this step which I think has more appeal as a long term ongoing dynamic tool rather than falling into the shortcomings of the Oak Ridge's Moraine Act. That policy got it's wheel stuck in the muck. It's hard for them to push concerns further but if we facilitated a watershed vehical of governance, we could impliment solutions on an evolutionary basis. Keep dialogue going, spread what works and keep expanding and working together to get results etc. 
If we have the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, why not the Federation of Canadian Watersheds?  
Lulu :0)
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