Since Hurricane Katrina, state, federal, and local officials have greatly strengthened storm protection around New Orleans. But have they prepared for the previous storm, and not for what climate change will bring with the next one?
Water can be described as a molecule, a solvent, a relative, a healer, and a force that both gives and takes life. Reader, what is water to you? If any article in this issue brings you into deeper understanding of the answer to this question, then we have succeeded. Like the We Are Water MN project as a whole, the goal of this issue is to share multiple ways of knowing water and to deepen your relationship with and responsibility to water.