Page 127 - Tributaries Catalogue

From Silvon’s Reflections

“Waste management and the ecological

footprint that we leave as communities and
individuals … was largely the centring theme, or

social theme of our trip, especially things like
the water supply and wastewater; how we

dispose of wastewater, how much we recycle,
how much is not recycled.” Silvon does not wish
“to say that one party is right and one party is

wrong.” Instead he offers “thoughts about
these perspective issues” and asks, “how do we

change them in the long term?” He expresses
concern that there is no “difference between

the water supplied for drinking and
consumption and the water supplied for bathing
and toilets.” What also stood out for him was

“seeing the litter in almost every area that we
went” and hearing of the “clear effects that this

has, not only on the aesthetics of the

118