Goals
What is a river dialogue for?
- Creating a unique space for public
discussion.
- Expanding perceptions of the rivers
and urban ecology -- opportunities and obstacles
- Developing cultural programs that reinforce
Green-Infrastructure awareness and thinking.
- Providing opportunities for education
and development of community programs --general or specific
to each river pool
- Defining what the concept of an integrated
living river means for the pools of the Three-River
system and its tributaries.
- Generating greater conversation and
connection among diverse members of the community with a
forum for engaging with one another about the future
of their rivers and riverbanks.
- Facilitating more open participation
in decision making on the issues of water quality,
access, use, and renewed storm water infrastructure.
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Children born of a water-rich
environment,
we have never really learned how important water is to
us. We understand it,
but we do not respect it.
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- William Ashworth
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