Dirty, Sacred Rivers, a Talk by Cheryl Colopy at SAAM on November 8
Cheryl Colopy discusses her book, Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis, which takes readers throughout the enormous Ganges river basin–in North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book is a vibrant first-person narrative that brings the complex issue of water sustainability to life, as she observes both gross mismanagement of rivers and also efforts to revive traditional sustainable methods of water management.
Two of her recent op-eds appeared in the New York Times and Yale Environment 360.
Cheryl Colopy is an environmental journalist who wrote Dirty, Sacred Rivers during seven years of travel and residence in South Asia. She is an award-winning reporter, formerly with National Public Radio affiliate KQED in San Francisco.
Presented by the Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas with the Elliott Bay Book Company.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, November 8
Time: 7 pm
Location: Seattle Asian Art Museum
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Free