Summary: Re-Inhabiting Taddle Creek

Watershed Journal #2: Re-Inhabiting Taddle Creek
For this week's reading journal, I read Re-Inhabiting Taddle Creek by Eduardo Sousa. This is an amazing piece of literature that describes the history of the Taddle Creek, the benefits of sustainable water usage, and the essential act of becoming and staying in tune with our specific watersheds. Ms. Sousa is highly passionate about all three of these topics and uses a high degree of persuasive language and vivid imagery to attract the reader towards her point of view. The author feels compelled to address these topics as they are important to sustainable water usage (which is the moral responsibility of every citizen on earth). I personally am very happy that the author chose these topics to …show more content…
She addresses the issue of the extinction of the taddle creek as a reminder of what can happen as a result of losing connection with one's primary water source. The author feels obliged to address this issue because keeping in touch with one's watershed results in caring and sustainable use of water- concluding with the betterment of a community's daily life and improving the sustainability of the nature within that community. On the other hand, ignoring the importance of a watershed will result in a mirror image of the Taddle Creek, and its negative repercussion will have an everlasting influence on the minds and safety of all individuals within and its surrounding areas. To finish, I felt that this was an extremely persuasive method of presenting an idea and it motivated me to connect to my own watershed once again (discussed in the other assignment) and the role I must play going forward to maintain the balance of the water which it holds. I am certain that many others including myself will use the example of the Taddle Creek as a reminder of the negative consequences that can arise as a result of ignoring and exploiting watersheds without providing them with the care they