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Wisdom Unveiled in The Language of Water

By Minni Jain, Philip Franses, and Synergetic Press

The Launch of Language of Water:
Ancient Techniques and Community Stories
for a Water-Secure Future

 

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Language of Water, now available for purchase on the Synergetic Press website.

 

This extraordinary book offers profound insights into the timeless relationship between humanity and water, weaving ancient techniques with the inspiring stories of communities worldwide who are restoring water to the land.

From the cool rush of a mountain stream to the intricate patterns of river bends and whirlpools, water’s ceaseless movement reflects its transformative power. As the introduction reminds us, water connects us to the origins of life and the cycles of renewal. In this time of ecological crisis, The Language of Water revives ancestral wisdom and practical solutions, from Rajasthani johads to Slovakian rain gardens, guiding us to imagine a future where communities and ecosystems thrive in harmony.

This book is a celebration, a call to action, and a reminder of water’s sacred nature. As you turn its pages, may its stories of creativity, resilience, and reconnection inspire you to become a steward of water and life itself.

 

Discover the Wisdom of Water: A Transformative Book on Ancient
Techniques and Community Stories – Order Your Copy Today!

“‘Water’ and ‘survival’ are pretty much the same thing, so it’s no wonder that local communities, facing record drought and heat,
are taking matters into their own hands. These are stirring stories of the recovery of time-honored techniques
that will be desperately important as the climate crisis keeps building.”

—Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature

The Language of Water is a love story about humans and water, and the ways in which we are learning to keep this relationship healthy for
the sake of future generations, reminding us that it takes people in our local communities and those at the macro level in cooperation
to help care for Mother Earth’s waters. With cases from around the world as evidence, Minni Jain and Philip Franses
show us that for the sake of Mother Earth’s future, community-led initiatives and traditional wisdom partnered with
earth-based scientific practices and research are the path of hope. Sustainable relationship with the waters around us
is essential if we are going to act in order to give future generations a chance—it’s all connected through
kinship, community, action and care. Read this book
as a reminder of the love story that is always unfolding,
and the important part we have to play in it.” 

—Kaitlin B. Curtice, Potawatomi poet-storyteller and award-winning author of Native and Living Resistance

Minni Jain

For more than 30 years, Minni Jain has been working with communities to regenerate their lives and landscapes. As cofounder and operations director of The Flow Partnership, she works to spread community-led, simple, successful, low-cost, traditional wisdom and methods of holding water and managing floods and droughts.

To share and make available these community methods of landscape water resilience at a ground level, she has helped set up practical water schools in Africa, India, and Europe that operate both as online forums and as on ground community water hubs. She has helped cofound the Food Forest Fund to resource community projects globally. Minni was born and brought up in the Himalayas in India and now lives in the UK.

Philip Franses

Philip Franses uses his expertise in holistic thinking and teaching to address global challenges through multistakeholder processes. He studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, and has designed intelligent software for a variety of organizations. Philip is the cofounder of The Flow Partnership, through which he creates platforms for communities to share their knowledge with each other, helping them restore water to its vital place within the cycles of nature.

Philip also teaches holistic science and is the author of Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order.

Synergetic Press

For over 35 years as an independent publisher, our mission has been to promote mindful discussion of humankind’s present and future lives. We publish unique and paradigm-shifting ideas in subjects such as ecology, sustainability, psychedelics, consciousness, and environmental and social justice that inspire both individual and social change.

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