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This journey focuses on different regions with hydrologic or
climatic particularities or extremes:
- The awakening of Siberia's jewel: the thaw of the Baïkal lake
- Water, a scarce element: Gobi desert during summer
- Cold desert, solid water: Himalayan winter
- Sacred water and spring of a major hydraulic civilization: myths
and traditions around the Gange river while waiting for the
monsoon
- Too much water : the monsoon in Bangladesh
- Life gets organized along big rivers: down the stream of the
Mekong river
- A city with its feet in water: Bangkok
A human approach
Those vast expanses (that will all be developed further in this
file) will be the stages of exploration, where I will stay longer and
share the everyday life of natives (from one to three months for
each). Living those "extremes of water" will allow me to:
- get nearer to the men and women that for times immemorial have
always adapted and organized their lives around this so vital and
capricious element
- find those whose life, beliefs and work are particularly related
to water
- understand the secrets and mysteries of lakes, springs, rivers or
deserts (tales, legends, songs...)
- discover the countless aspects of water through other people's
eyes and lives (adults and children)
And professional
My specialization in hydraulic constructions will allow me to meet
many professionals of the water world in order to gather and
understand the current and future projects in those regions: a way to
confront on one hand everyday life and adaptation to those
environments (on a human level) and on the other hand the more
technical and general aspects of exploitation and control of water.
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