Mar 25, 2025
Minni Jain and Philip
Franses are co-founders of The Flow Partnership, and they are co-authors of the
new book, The Language of Water: Ancient Techniques
and Community Stories for a Water Secure Future. In this
podcast they explore the process of helping communities around the
world to restore streams and rivers, prevent flooding, and recover
local water wisdom.
For decades they have been working to help communities regenerate
their landscapes, using traditional methods that can be implemented
and maintained by the communities themselves. The book, recently
published by by Synergetic
Press, tells the stories of people around the world whose land
and ways of life have been upended by colonialism and
industrialization––and the processes by which they reclaim not only
land health but also their own sense of agency, meaning, and
story-telling about their place.