Join us on Thursday May 25 to Discuss Water, Climate, and the Border
Join us on Thursday May 25 to Discuss Water, Climate, and the Border
How big of an issue is water in the borderlands? Please help us answer that question along with a panel of experts from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico divide.
We have a question for you, dear readers: How important are water and rivers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Is water scarcity and the health of rivers and other waterways something people should be worried about, or is the concern overblown? Who has control of water, are there financial interests, and how does climate change play into this? Is there a way we can address the water situation and make it more sustainable for everyone, regardless of where a person lives?
We hope that you will join us Thursday, May 25, to ponder these questions. Starting at 12 p.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Mountain, 2 p.m. Central, 3 p.m. Eastern, I (Todd Miller) will moderate our discussion thread.
We have an amazing slate of experts who will be joining us from both sides of the U.S. Mexico divide to help us contemplate all of this. This includes Juarense textile artist and environmental activist Jeannette Terrazas, who has been on the frontlines to protect the Rio Grande; University of Texas El Paso anthropologist Josiah Heyman, who for decades has written on border issues and human rights, and has had a more recent focus on water sustainability in the borderlands; Alfredo Granados-Olivas, professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Universidad Autonóma de Ciudad Juárez, who has done extensive research on cross border water management; and Martha Pskowski of Inside Climate News, who has written extensively on climate change in the Texas borderlands.
Please do join us. We feel that this cross-border discussion is of high importance, especially since climate change, water scarcity, and (for that matter) capitalism know no borders, even if there is a wall telling us otherwise.
When the discussion launches, participants will receive an email in their inbox from us tomorrow at the appointed time, like our normal posts. If you’re new to discussion threads, it’s a written forum in real time. People can engage with the subject matter, post questions to the experts, and make comments. We know that there is an immense amount of knowledge among our readers, and we want to hear your thoughts on these issues. It promises to be a fascinating and enriching discussion.
As two freelance reporters who are struggling to build this newsletter into a full-fledged, sustainable publication, we are offering these discussion threads as a bonus to paid subscribers only. (You can learn more about our struggle here.) If you enjoy reading The Border Chronicle and listening to our podcast, we hope you’ll sign up today as a paid subscriber. We would love for The Border Chronicle to be our full-time job (instead of having three!). We appreciate your support in making this happen!
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