Watershed Conservation

Any astronomer knows today water only exists on Earth because of Jupiter. When the latter's gravitational force propelled oxygen-laden comets into the Earth’s atmosphere at the formation of our solar system, "the skies threw down their spears and watered heavens with their tears”, as a poet would say. Since then, water is the source of all life on Earth. Its conservation is therefore the preservation of life itself. For this reason, many water sources are sacred for indigenous peoples. They are the givers and bringers of life. The Kayapó from Amazonia recognise this by calling themselves Mebengokrê, or "those who emerged from the waterhole". Indigenous peoples have always cultivated water, from those who have made water sources sacred and thereby preserved them, to those who engineered an entire civilisation in spite of a natural water scarcity which lasted for half of their yearly cycle, like the Maya with their cenotes and chultuns. A world that considers water private property, or that restricts the access to water to other peoples, is a world out of sync with this enshrinement of water as an inalienable social good or commonwealth. It is the reason Bolivian indigenous peoples have risen to defend humanities' greatest patrimony of life. At Huya Aniwa we will treat water with the reverence these indigenous peoples have taught us, working for the preservation of all water sources, recovering their ecosystems to establish them, whether in La Noria or elsewhere, with the support of the indigenous communities who have guarded them for millennia.