#runningwater — Public Fediverse posts
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"If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water." - English proverb.
campingemporium.com#runningwater #nature #water #carp #waterfall #naturephotography #river s #beastmode #insecticons #berries #stream #waterfalls #photography
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"If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water." - English proverb.
campingemporium.com#runningwater #nature #water #carp #waterfall #naturephotography #river s #beastmode #insecticons #berries #stream #waterfalls #photography
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The River Goyt, Marple, Greater Manchester, UK #Nature #River #RunningWater #Peaceful #Relaxation
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2021 city hall park, nyc #BlueSkyArtShow #RunningWater #photography
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Arizona tribes’ long fight for share of #ColoradoRiver water nears resolution in #USCongress - deal includes a homeland for the San Juan Southern #Paiute Tribe!
Gabrielle Wallace / Cronkite News
Sept. 27, 2024WASHINGTON – "Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded the #Hopi, the #Navajo [#Diné] and other tribal nations.
"After years of pressure and negotiation, Congress is moving to rectify what the tribes have long seen as an #injustice that has caused enormous hardship.
"'We’re closer than we’ve ever been before in reaching a final settlement,' Bryan Newland, assistant secretary for Indian Affairs with the Department of the Interior, told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
"Representatives from four Arizona tribes – the #YavapaiApacheNation, Hopi, #SanJuanSouthernPaiute and the Navajo Nation – said the settlements, once approved by Congress, will secure their long-standing claims and provide more accessible water for their people.
"Almost a third of members of the Hopi, Navajo and other tribes have no #RunningWater, and leaders say the water currently available isn’t sufficient for growing populations.
"'Congress must act to end the water crisis on the Navajo Nation,' said Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren, who recalled that he didn’t have running water until he went off to college at Arizona State University.
"The water insecurity crisis has been felt for generations, he said.
"Navajo people sometimes have to haul water for over 30 miles, a costly and time-consuming exercise.
"The #YavapaiApacheNation #WaterRightsSettlementAct of 2024 and the #NortheasternArizona #IndianWaterRightsSettlementAct of 2024 would provide funds for pipelines and other infrastructure. The bills would also impose pumping restrictions to ensure that #groundwater is not depleted.
"The process has been slow. The #GilaRiver Adjudication process started over 50 years ago.
"Disputes over the Colorado River stem from a 1922 compact between #Arizona, #California, #Colorado, #Nevada, #NewMexico, #Utah and #Wyoming.
"'Without the settlement, a cloud of uncertainty will remain over tribal water claims in the Colorado River basin and tens of thousands of tribal members will continue to struggle to meet their basic needs,' said Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat who introduced the settlement bills with fellow Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent.
"The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2024 would address claims to water from major stems of the Colorado River and Colorado River basin, providing running water to many Navajo and Hopi people.
"It also sets aside 5,100 acres near Tuba City and another 300 acres in Utah to create a reservation for the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.
"'The mental-emotional impact of being a landless, homeless tribe is something I wouldn’t wish upon anyone,' said Johnny Lehi Jr., the tribe’s vice president."
#LandBack #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericanNews #WaterRights #PauiteHomeland
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Arizona tribes’ long fight for share of #ColoradoRiver water nears resolution in #USCongress - deal includes a homeland for the San Juan Southern #Paiute Tribe!
Gabrielle Wallace / Cronkite News
Sept. 27, 2024WASHINGTON – "Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded the #Hopi, the #Navajo [#Diné] and other tribal nations.
"After years of pressure and negotiation, Congress is moving to rectify what the tribes have long seen as an #injustice that has caused enormous hardship.
"'We’re closer than we’ve ever been before in reaching a final settlement,' Bryan Newland, assistant secretary for Indian Affairs with the Department of the Interior, told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
"Representatives from four Arizona tribes – the #YavapaiApacheNation, Hopi, #SanJuanSouthernPaiute and the Navajo Nation – said the settlements, once approved by Congress, will secure their long-standing claims and provide more accessible water for their people.
"Almost a third of members of the Hopi, Navajo and other tribes have no #RunningWater, and leaders say the water currently available isn’t sufficient for growing populations.
"'Congress must act to end the water crisis on the Navajo Nation,' said Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren, who recalled that he didn’t have running water until he went off to college at Arizona State University.
"The water insecurity crisis has been felt for generations, he said.
"Navajo people sometimes have to haul water for over 30 miles, a costly and time-consuming exercise.
"The #YavapaiApacheNation #WaterRightsSettlementAct of 2024 and the #NortheasternArizona #IndianWaterRightsSettlementAct of 2024 would provide funds for pipelines and other infrastructure. The bills would also impose pumping restrictions to ensure that #groundwater is not depleted.
"The process has been slow. The #GilaRiver Adjudication process started over 50 years ago.
"Disputes over the Colorado River stem from a 1922 compact between #Arizona, #California, #Colorado, #Nevada, #NewMexico, #Utah and #Wyoming.
"'Without the settlement, a cloud of uncertainty will remain over tribal water claims in the Colorado River basin and tens of thousands of tribal members will continue to struggle to meet their basic needs,' said Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat who introduced the settlement bills with fellow Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent.
"The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2024 would address claims to water from major stems of the Colorado River and Colorado River basin, providing running water to many Navajo and Hopi people.
"It also sets aside 5,100 acres near Tuba City and another 300 acres in Utah to create a reservation for the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.
"'The mental-emotional impact of being a landless, homeless tribe is something I wouldn’t wish upon anyone,' said Johnny Lehi Jr., the tribe’s vice president."
#LandBack #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericanNews #WaterRights #PauiteHomeland
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This morning I woke up with a question: Why do we say that water runs, but it never walks or crawls? Instead it runs slowly, or it drips?
It ends up this is a peculiarity of English. In researching this, Merriam-Webster surprisingly has ‘running water’ as a noun. It’s two words, an adjective and a noun, but they went with making it a noun which demonstrates how steeped it has become in the English language. It also states that the first use of it was in 1856.
It doesn’t say where. Well, how do we know that then? To quote Wikipedia, “Citation Needed“.
I got this far with Perplexity.AI, which I use sometimes for research – I’m not paying for it (yet? $20 a month is steep). Since I had a hint that it was considered a noun, I checked Etymonline and found nothing of use there.
When I checked Oxford English Dictionary about ‘running water’, it claimed that the earliest known use of the phrase was in the Old English period, before 1150. That’s about 700 years earlier than Merriam-Webster claimed. Oxford offered to give me the etymology, if only I subscribed. I did try registering to see how much that would cost, but those folks in Oxford had other plans.
I’m not sure how I acted suspiciously. Maybe there is a conspiracy about ‘running water’ – a coverup? I sincerely doubt that.
Paywalling the source of running water is… mildly amusing. They dammed the flow of information. So punny.
I ended up looking up the Old English etymology, and ended up with ‘ea‘.
So, in all of this, I haven’t really answered the question which is dissatisfying. It’s a simple enough question, one that I have thought about off and on for about half a century. Perplexity.AI couldn’t find it because humans who wrote for websites didn’t write it, or paywalled the answer.
It’s just another English oddity. Remember that the next time you run past a dripping faucet, or are running next to running water.
Meanwhile, electricity flows, but motors run. Go figure.
If anyone has answers, I’d love to hear what they are. If you found this trying to research it, hopefully more content can be found on it when you are looking – please let me know in a comment.
https://realityfragments.com/2024/04/29/running-water/
#English #etymology #grammar #language #peculiarity #runningWater #writing
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Went for a walk, and stood and appreciated the sound of running water from this stream, and the people walking and biking by, for a while.
Having at least a little bit of nature in the city is so important!
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Went for a walk, and stood and appreciated the sound of running water from this stream, and the people walking and biking by, for a while.
Having at least a little bit of nature in the city is so important!
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Good morning. 🏖️🩴☕
15 September 2023
My wife and I drove to Alexandria, Louisiana yesterday and had lunch at a fancy. restaurant with tables and everything. :) While we were there, my wife did some shopping at Burlington's, a store that challenges my sanity. So, I dropped her off and went to Books-a-Million. I picked up the latest Stephen King book, " Holly." When we got home our water was off, it is again this morning.
We never really think about the convenience of running water in our homes until the water stops running. My wife and I usually keep plenty of drinking water around. The biggest problem is that the bathrooms stop working.
"The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain, but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these". - Bill Bailey
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdwatching #morning #runningwater #shopping #RingBilledGull
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Good morning. 🏖️🩴☕
15 September 2023
My wife and I drove to Alexandria, Louisiana yesterday and had lunch at a fancy. restaurant with tables and everything. :) While we were there, my wife did some shopping at Burlington's, a store that challenges my sanity. So, I dropped her off and went to Books-a-Million. I picked up the latest Stephen King book, " Holly." When we got home our water was off, it is again this morning.
We never really think about the convenience of running water in our homes until the water stops running. My wife and I usually keep plenty of drinking water around. The biggest problem is that the bathrooms stop working.
"The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain, but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these". - Bill Bailey
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdwatching #morning #runningwater #shopping #RingBilledGull
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Who wants a peaceful minute? https://youtu.be/CoGPd65HsBY
Birds bathing in our creek in Lilydale, Tasmania with bird and burbling water sounds. The larger birds is a Yellow-throutaed Honeyeater. Other bathing birds are Silvereyes and on the opposite bank are Superb Fairy-wrens.
#Tasmania #TasmanianRainforest #Birds #Creek #RunningWater #Peaceful -
You know what? For all the boosting of #introduction posts I do, I don't remember if I ever did one myself.
Ah well. If I did, that was several instance ago.
I've been in #TechnicalSupport too long, and in #transition not long enough. I love knowing how things work, and will never quite understand people.
I range between #depression, building strange things in #JavaScript, and places in between. I have pretty bad issues with #ExecutiveFunction As in..I haven't found it yet. Much older then I appear, and younger then I feel.
Let's see. A tag cloud, In very random order: #green #plants #runningWater #forests #Mosstodon, #transgender #kindness #ReverseEngineering #catsOfMastodon #naturePhotography
Probably other things I can't think of. Look forward to meeting you. Please keep politics and violence behind a CW. I know the world sucks and a lot of things need to be shared. I'm #NeuroDivergent and my #mentalHealth is such that I get really bad #anxiety when I see things I can't change. Thank you for caring.
