Alaí Reyes-Santos, Haley Case-Scott, and Jairaj Singh
In fall 2020, the Oregon Water Futures project spoke with community members from Clatsop to the Willamette Valley to Malheur and Umatilla about water. Native, Indigenous Latin American, Latinx, Black, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Arab and Somali community members shared stories illustrating culturally specific ways of interacting with drinking water and bodies of water, concerns around water quality and cost, resiliency in the face of challenges to access water resources essential for physical, emotional and spiritual health, and a desire for water resource education and to be better equipped to advocate for water resources.
LISTEN: Understanding Water Challenges Facing Oregon s Native, Black, Latinx, and Migrant Communities
We talk with Alaà Reyes-Santos from the Oregon Water Futures Project about the findings from their 2021 report.
By
Gabriel Granillo
5/28/2021 at 12:30am
Klamath Marsh
Last year the Oregon Water Futures Project, in partnership with Unite Oregon, the Chinook Indian Nation, and other organizations, conducted a series of water-focused conversations with Native, Black, Latinx, and migrant communities around the state to learn about their cultural connections to water and their concerns when it comes to water education, access, and advocacy. And
earlier this week OWF released a report of their findings from those conversations to Oregon policy- and decision-makers.