Analysis Of The Water Crisis

In recent days, water crisis has been regarded as one of the catastrophic environmental issues beside pollution and biodiversity loss since the water itself is truly important for sustaining all beings living on the planet. When people overestimate the power of the knowledge of science by which they think all of problems can be solved, they overlook to analyze why and where are the problems coming out. In the other words, we can totally address the environmental issues only if we had found out the main source from where they are originated. In this critical commentary, I will seek out the main tumor rooted in the water crisis based on the analyzing two selected articles, which are “Chapter 3 Water and Water Peace from Making Peace with the

In effect, “the implementation of the government’s technologies policies, and procedure has not proven to be effective or appropriate in the specific context of indigenous communities and indigenous people are often submerged and invisible in their own land since they do not have the right for providing their interest” (Jo-Anne, et al, 2013). To demonstrate, the problem is that government treats the water as something that has been commodified while the indigenous people take care of water as something having spirit. In the other words, when the government usually uses economic instrument that places price on water to address the water issue the indigenous people tell the public that we have to protect and respect water since it has spirit and intrinsic value. Indeed, the definition of key concept of indigenous knowledge is that the experience that local people have to live with the nature in harmony and is critical since it holds “a holistic worldview in which water is seen as part of a greater web of interconnected relations” (Jo-Anne, et al, 2013). In the other ways, anything, such as human, water, land, on the planet is a part of the whole ecosystem in which they are interconnected with each others. In addition, indigenous people had nominated women as the leaders in the revolution of respecting the spirit of water since they have the same characteristic of nurturing as the water has. In the other words, women give the birth and essential nutrient to their baby in the same way in which the water gives human basic support for living. As Jo-Anne, et al (2013) pointed out, “Women in this field bring to it a sense of humanity and a connection with other women who have a vested interest in the water, whether as people