ZERISA Intent document
The visit of Dr. Emoto to South Africa is being organised by ZERI-SA assisted by ZERI international. Dr. Emoto was invited to visit South Africa by Prof. Gunter Pauli, founder director of ZERI International.
Nirmala Nair, director of ZERI-SA has been working on this programme since the beginning of 2005 networking and organising various local sponsors to assist the event.
Why is ZERI and ZERI-SA interested in bringing Dr. Emoto to South Africa? This will be a natural curiosity for anybody attending this event.
ZERI global network believes that Dr. Emoto’s work is an important contribution in the field of developing innovative and sustainable technologies. ZERI-SA believes that Dr. Emoto’s visit will contribute profoundly to raise public awareness around water issues in this country.
Dr. Emoto has never been to Africa. At the request of ZERI and Prof. Gunter Pauli, Emoto has made water crystals responding to traditional African music. This really inspired Dr. Emoto to visit South Africa. Dr. Emoto hopes to present this water crystal image to Nelson Mandela during his visit to South Africa.
Relevance of Dr. Emoto’s message to South Africa
South Africa is going to face an enormous water shortage and water related problems in the near future. Old fashioned farming methods, polluting industries guzzling water and unsustainable water use-life styles need to be challenged if South Africa has to actively involve in regenerating water source for all. Water is simply a basic necessity as well as basic right that cannot be left only in the hands of government, politicians or industry alone.
In townships across the country people are facing acute water problem. The rivers and waterways are polluted. The poor in particular women and children are facing the brunt of water problem
Current water –use and related practices across the world and South Africa is no exception to this- is based on very narrow understanding of water and water technologies.
This narrow understanding has led to the current scenario where by clean water has become an affordable commodity only for the rich. Increase in the unsustainable bottled water industries will aggravate the water related problems.
On the other hand there is a gradual stripping away of the traditional wisdom around water. South African traditional culture like any other traditional pre-industrial cultures deeply respects water, water rituals are part of any ceremonies. Water is an integral part of nature with an innate intelligence of its own.
While the current industrial context has to be taken into account, it is imperative that all water development and water use designs become aware of the live consciousness of water, uphold the sacredness of water at the same time see how obsolete science and technologies hat abuse water be reconsidered.
An active public awareness can thus challenge industries based on any unsustainable abuse of water causing more depletion of water source as well as polluting waters. Public participation on the basis of informed knowledge is the best way to move forward especially when it is something as basic and critical to life as water. Exposure such as that of Dr. Emoto’s messages from water will inevitably open up new ways of developing water technologies while making a conscious move towards a more sustainable water use in this country.
Smart approaches will emerge embarking on greater water related campaigns and education bringing in the wisdom of the old ways blending it with the possible new solutions embedded in science and technology.
How do we create public awareness around such an important natural resource, as water?
How do we make sure that the awareness around water will assist general public to understand how industries and narrow science is polluting our land, our waters?
How can we expose narrow and short-sighted business that uses old science as a crutch to uphold the greed and profit motives of few interest groups?
We as ZERI-SA believe that it is only through such public awareness and education that we are able to unlock the new scientific knowledge and blend this with ageless tradition and practices -which has incredible respect to water bodies and water use. We will thus be able to unlock an incredible way forward in terms of changing the behaviours of water guzzling industries such as mining, metals, chemicals as well as water intensive farming operations in this country while enabling challenging breakthroughs in the creation of new and sustainable water use technologies that is affordable and inclusive .
Nirmala Nair
Director ZERI-SA
Cape Town
