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If you are reading about this flooding issue for the first time, start here: When Prophecy Becomes Reality: From Observing Crisis to Living It
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Lagos has been teaching me about water. Not the chemical, academic version oh. The kind that comes in under your front door on a Tuesday afternoon, the kind that turns roads into rivers and makes Ubers refuse to enter your estate, the kind that, year after year, claims homes and quiet evenings and entire seasons of people's lives without much of a public reckoning. Water is the most fundamental thing we live with. In Fela's words, "Waterrrrr, e no get enemy." It is in our bodies, our cities, our economies, our spirituality. It gives us everything. It can also take everything. And we have been treating that fact as though it is weather, something that happens to us, rather than what it actually is: a relationship we keep choosing, by what we build, what we let degrade, what we document, and what we demand.
This campaign is one of those choices. Alongside partner organisations, we have spent the last few months sourcing what already exists, building what didn't, and making the path to action shorter for the people living through flooding. None of this is one-off work. It sits inside a longer, slower commitment to documenting what is actually happening, collaborating across the people already doing this work, and pushing (patiently and unromantically) for resolutions that hold.
We are inviting you to join us in raising the standard for how we live in this city. The support site offers a checklist of actions, contact details for every relevant agency, and letter templates to make formal complaints less of an ordeal. The more of us who move, the more information we generate, and the harder it becomes for the agencies responsible to keep treating this as somebody else's problem.
Until next week, may you find joy in the journey of becoming. Remember, every new day is the best day of our lives - especially when it comes with tending to water as the source of all life. **
Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang
SPECIAL REPORT FLOOD IN NIGERIA 25092012
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