On a sunny winter day in San Francisco, Joel Pomerantz brakes his bike in Alamo Square Park near that famous spot where Victorian houses, the Painted Ladies, front the city’s modern skyline. Read More about Water Always Wins Read Less about Water Always Wins By putting these new approaches to the test, innovators in the Slow Water movement are reshaping the future. Figuring out what water wants-and accommodating its desires within our human landscapes-is now a crucial survival strategy. Gies reminds us that water’s true nature is to flex with the rhythms of the earth: the slow phases absorb floods, store water for droughts, and feed natural systems. Modern civilizations tend to speed water away, erasing its slow phases on the land. In this quietly radical book, science journalist Erica Gies introduces us to innovators in what she calls the Slow Water movement who start by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? Using close observation, historical research, and cutting-edge science, these experts in hydrology, restoration ecology, engineering, and urban planning are already transforming our relationship with water. Because sooner or later, water always wins. But as we grapple with extreme weather, a hard truth is emerging: our development, including concrete infrastructure designed to control water, is actually exacerbating our problems. Increasingly severe and frequent floods and droughts inevitably spur calls for higher levees, bigger drains, and longer aqueducts. But as new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable-and it is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our relationship with water. Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was conceived and constructed with a relatively stable climate in mind.
This study uncovers a little known dimension of Canadian social history and shows that moral reform was not the project of a marginal puritanical group but was central to the race, class, and gender organization of modern English Canada.A hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water. Sexual health was linked to racial purity, and both of these were in turn linked to efforts to abolish urban slums by means of symbolic as well as physical "light, soap, and water." On the contrary, the self-defined social purity movement at the centre of this book talked endlessly about sex in order to create a healthy sexuality among both native-born and immigrant Canadians. The morality idealized by evangelical, feminist, and medical activists was not, as is often assumed, completely repressive and puritanical. Mariana Valverde's groundbreaking The Age of Light, Soap, and Waterexamines the work and the ideas of moralist clergy, social workers, politicians, and bureaucrats who sought to maintain - or create - a white Protestant Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”
The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada.
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