So, yes, your question, I think, does not have a universal answer. It does rely on people’s ability to mobilize and visualize the relationship with nature, in this case with water. We have a team member working on a project called: ‘Say Hi to the River’. And what she is doing is that, to make a community minded avatar of sorts that represents a river, and a river would have some kind of legal personhood, like in New Zealand the Whanganui River or in India the Ganga River. These rivers can represent themselves in board meetings and so on, like companies do.

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