Sweet and Salt: Water in Regional Cultures

Louisiana Garret Graves

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“Sweet & Salt” investigates the influence of water on four regional cultures, and highlights the water management styles of NewYork, Louisiana, the Netherlands, and Vietnam. Historically these regions have established long-standing practices and behaviors surrounding changes in water conditions. Efforts to manage water in times of disaster have rendered unique approaches and responses that have come to shape the cultural values of each region. Some regions developed robust and hard infrastructure to counter the destructive nature of water, while other regions have mastered ways to live with and accommodate water in order to achieve common benefits. Panelists familiar with each region lead a discussion on prevail- ing cultural beliefs and ideas about water and how these beliefs and ideas are manifested within each culture. Louisiana: GARRET GRAVES, Chair of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana Vietnam: PHILIP GIANG, Senior Associate, Perkins Eastman New York: SAM ROBERTS, writer and journalist The Netherlands: PIET DIRCKE, Professor of Urban Water Management, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Arcadis

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1.Garret Graves

2. Garret Graves Chair, CPRA Board Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities September 2013 Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana Louisiana 3. Garret Graves Chair, CPRA Board Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities September 2013 Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana Louisiana an American Story 4. 1938 5. 1938 1974 6. 1938 1974 1989 7. Mississippi River & Tributaries 8. Massive Levee Construction Following 1927 Flood 9. In the last 80 years Louisiana has lost 1,900 square miles of coastal land 10. Thats the equivalent of losing the land mass of NYC every 13 years 11. 1952 12. 2005 13. 160+ miles of built or improved levees 160+ miles of built or improved levees 14. BEFORE Katrina AFTER Katrina BEFORE Katrina AFTER Katrina 15. Today New Orleans 16. Tomorrow? New Orleans 17. H209FORUMWATERCHALLENGESFORCOASTALCITIES FROMTHEDUTCHDELTATONEWYORKHARBOR2013 Henry Hudson Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 3Di 18. Philip Giang 19. H209FORUMWATERCHALLENGESFORCOASTALCITIES FROMTHEDUTCHDELTATONEWYORKHARBOR2013 Henry Hudson Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 3Di 20. Sam Roberts 21. H209FORUMWATERCHALLENGESFORCOASTALCITIES FROMTHEDUTCHDELTATONEWYORKHARBOR2013 Henry Hudson Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 3Di 22. Piet Dircke 23. H209FORUMWATERCHALLENGESFORCOASTALCITIES FROMTHEDUTCHDELTATONEWYORKHARBOR2013 Henry Hudson Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 3Di