‘Indeed, when we can drink from our rivers, it means that a whole ecosystem is healthy and in balance. Rivers can only be drinkable when all actions and relations in an entire watershed contribute.This could be a guiding principle for our societies, as a replacement of economic growth. Drinkable rivers as an ancient and new compass, guided by the following, simple question: “Does this behaviour, this measure, or this innovation contribute to drinkable rivers?”’
In medicine, the idea of smooth-flowing rivers is very old, going back to the Huang Di Nei Jing, the classic book of Chinese medicine, which lays out the traditional ideas and techniques of acupuncture.