Kelsey Leonard, in this TEDWomen talk from 2019, explores the criticality of transforming how we value water. Her powerful presentation centres on the idea of giving water the same legal rights as people in order to help solve the water-related injustices in our world today. Leonard uses Native American Nokomis indigenous knowledge in her talk to demonstrate how we can transform the value we afford water, and our governance of it, to solve the planet’s water crises.
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Kelsey Leonard, in this TEDWomen talk from 2019, explores the criticality of transforming how we value water. Her powerful presentation centres on the idea of giving water the same legal rights as people in order to help solve the water-related injustices in our world today. Leonard uses Native American Nokomis indigenous knowledge in her talk to demonstrate how we can transform the value we afford water, and our governance of it, to solve the planet’s water crises.