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    水是有生命的，其生命力来自江河湖海的沟通与联系。地球表面纵横交错、奔流不息的河川与湖泊、湿地的“血脉”沟通、自由流淌形成的独特的水域系统，是整个地球生命系统的基础。它们将生命所需的水分与营养输送到陆地各个角落，滋润着地球上各种生命，就像血管把血液输送到身体各个部分。保护水域系统是保护我们生命的根本。

 

    成都活水公园的设计者之一、可持续环境设计和规划专家Betsy Damon （贝西·达蒙）将结合国内外的案例为我们讲述水域系统的奥秘，为什么我们要保护水域系统，它与整个生命系统的相互联系，以及如何保护。

 

                           ——水是一切可持续体系的基础

                保护整个系统（ Saving system）；

                水资源是基础；(Water is foundation)

                协作、合作；(Collaboration )

                基层工作的重要性；( Working locally)

                经济的可持续性；( Economy of sustainability )

                清洁水的社会价值；( Social value of clean water)

 

        Betsy Damon （贝西·达蒙）

    可持续环境设计和规划专家；

    国际咨询专家；研讨会讲师和组织者；

    珍·古道尔研究会董事会成员；                             

    中国和美国水域系统设计项目负责人；

    北京2008奥运会可持续水资源利用规划设计组成员；

    与中国政府就水域问题合作紧密

 

    环境艺术先锋，通过创建大型流水雕塑艺术主题公园以及开展公共艺术活动，来帮助清洁城市污水、提高公众对水域系统的环保意识。由她创建的非营利组织——河流守护者（Keepers of the Waters），为其他有着类似设计原理和程序的项目提供信息服务和技术支持。

 

    Betsy创意并参与设计的“活水公园”，1998年建于中国四川成都市中区，是一座大型的、曾获得设计奖项的主题公园。“ 河流污水流经一个个兼具自然和艺术风格设计的水池处理系统、过滤池、流水雕塑等，让整个污水净化过程一目了然”。雕筑过的黑色大理石、水泥沏成的流水雕塑遍布公园，使得从池与池之间流过的河水因水流节奏和流动幅度的变化而达到净化效果。

 

    Betsy参与的另一项目，以水为主题的da Vinci 水公园，建于2003年，是美国波特兰市城市自来水厂和da Vinci中学合作的、以社区为基础的项目，位于一座废弃的网球场，该项目把从屋顶和停车场流过的雨水引导流向一座集环境教育和艺术欣赏为一体的流水公园。

 

    “全球水质状况取决于每个社区都拥有他们所了解的、并对其负责任的可持续利用的水资源。遍布全球的各个城市若能拥有活动的流水、充满艺术氛围的社区活动中心、公园、校园、商业场所和庭院，就能帮助人们建立和水资源之间更紧密的联系。这些项目将引导建立能融入我们日常生活的、可见的而不是隐藏在地下的可持续利用水处理设施。”

 

    因一直致力于国际技术服务和跨学科领域工作，Betsy Damon 女士把作为环境艺术家的创造性解决问题的工作技巧运用到帮助解决重要城市水质问题的工作中。“当人们共同致力于解决一个问题时，往往比单独行动的效果好。通过水，我们彼此相连，与其它所有生物相互依存。象水一样，我们是一个大家庭，总是在寻求着机会加入另一方。”

 

    Environmental World Expert in Sustainable Design and Planning
    International Consultant, Lecturer and Leader of Workshops
    Board of Directors, Jane Goodall Institute
    Water Design Project Director, USA and China
    Design team for sustainable water plan for 2008 Olympics, Beijing
    Design director of Chengdu Living Water Gardens, Sichuan, China
    Works closely with Chinese government on water systems

    Environmental art pioneer, Betsy Damon, creates large-scale art parks featuring sculptural flow forms and public art events to help clean urban waterways and raise water awareness around the globe. Her nonprofit organization, Keepers of the Waters, provides information and technical support for others working with similar design principles and processes.

 

    "The Living Water Garden", (1998), is a large-scale, award-winning public park in the center of downtown Chengdu, China. "Polluted river water moves through a natural, and artistic treatment system of ponds, filters and flowforms, making the process of cleaning water visible." Sculpted black marble and cement flow form pools throughout the park aid in water purification through the rhythmic oscillation of water currents as they pass from one pool to another.

 

    Another project, the da Vinci Water Garden (2003) was a community based collaboration between Urban Water Works and da Vinci Arts Middle School in Portland, OR. Located on an abandoned tennis court, it redirects stormwater from rooftops and a parking lot through an educational and artistic water garden.

"Global water quality is dependent on each community having a sustainable water source that they know about and are responsible for. Cities all over the planet can be filled with vibrant, water and art-filled community centers, parks, schoolyards businesses and backyards that help people become intimately connected to their water sources. These projects will lead the way for fully sustainable water infrastructures, visible and integrated into our everyday lives, rather than hidden under the ground."

 

    Working internationally in a technical and interdisciplinary field, Betsy Damon brings her skill as an artist and creative problem-solver to help address important urban water quality issues. "When people join together to solve a problem they do better than if they tried to solve it alone. Through water, we are interconnected and related to all other living things. Like water, we are one giant family, always seeking to join one another."