“Sweet & Salt” investigates the influence of water on four regional cultures, and highlights the water management styles of NewYork, Louisiana, the Netherlands, and Vietnam. Historically these regions have established long-standing practices and behaviors surrounding changes in water conditions. Efforts to manage water in times of disaster have rendered unique approaches and responses that have come to shape the cultural values of each region. Some regions developed robust and hard infrastructure to counter the destructive nature of water, while other regions have mastered ways to live with and accommodate water in order to achieve common benefits. Panelists familiar with each region lead a discussion on prevail- ing cultural beliefs and ideas about water and how these beliefs and ideas are manifested within each culture. Louisiana: GARRET GRAVES, Chair of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana Vietnam: PHILIP GIANG, Senior Associate, Perkins Eastman New York: SAM ROBERTS, writer and journalist The Netherlands: PIET DIRCKE, Professor of Urban Water Management, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Arcadis

1. Garret Graves

2. Garret Graves
Chair, CPRA Board
Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities
September 2013
Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority
of Louisiana
Louisiana

3. Garret Graves
Chair, CPRA Board
Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities
September 2013
Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority
of Louisiana
Louisiana
an American Story

5. 1938

6. 1938 1974

7. 1938 1974 1989

10. Mississippi River & Tributaries

11. Massive Levee Construction
Following 1927 Flood

14. In the last 80 years
Louisiana has lost
1,900 square miles of
coastal land

15. That’s
the equivalent
of losing the land
mass of NYC every
13 years

16. 1952

17. 2005

23. 160+ miles
of built or
improved levees
160+ miles
of built or
improved levees

37. BEFORE
Katrina
AFTER
Katrina
BEFORE
Katrina
AFTER
Katrina

45. Today
New Orleans

46. Tomorrow?
New Orleans

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48. Philip Giang

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55. Sam Roberts

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57. Piet Dircke

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