LAKE TO LAKE 2025

In the Fall 2025 Walking Water will retrace our path from Mono Lake to Owens Lake/Patsiata, in celebration of the original journey ten years ago and in witness to what has and has not changed in this iconic California water story.

It will be a time of completion, a time of healing and remembering, a time of celebration and grieving, a time of responding to what is happening in the world and a time to bear witness on behalf of our next generations to that which is deeply threatened and quickly disappearing.

It will be a time of honoring these sister lakes, their existence so deeply and persistently threatened, and asking for their restoration.

It will be a time of acknowledging the many injustices experienced by the original peoples – the Nüümmü/Newe – of these waters and lands.

It will be a time of joining the call for meaningful, committed and action-oriented dialogue between Los Angeles, as majority landowner in Payahuunadü, and all local inhabitants.

It will be a time to ask for sacred lands and waters to be returned to the Nüümmü/Newe peoples.

It will be a time for each of us to explore what it truly means to be in relationship with water and to realign our actions with that which gives life.

The COMMUNITY FUND will support walkers - local & international water activists, tribal representatives and community members - to join the walk and support the logistical needs of the whole walk. Our goal is $50,000 and will go towards food, logistical equipment, insurance, support vehicles, travel expenses and medical supplies.

We give gratitude for all that has been received and all that will.

Walking Water is a fiscally sponsored project of Weaving Earth.

Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education believes that education must critically engage inherited systems of separation and domination, and at the same time responsibly recollect a deeper human inheritance: stories of interrelationship, belonging, dignity and respect. At the root of this deeper inheritance is the embodied remembering that humans are a part of nature, not apart from it. From this orientation, we work with youth, teens, adults, and organizations in the Bay Area and beyond to build a more just and resilient future.

AUDIO STORY BOOK - "PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER" READ BY KATE BUNNEY