A structurally creative response to climate change:

We never really own water, we just
keep it for the next generation.

The Water Archive is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization for the protection of water globally. It centers the values, histories and futures of water in specific locations where water, land and people converge, such as a source or a dam. 

Such water resources hold different use values for different people, creatures and processes. The relative importance of these values is constantly developing. The Water Archive tracks and transacts these developments through artifacts. They include data, plans, artworks, stories, water rights, beach clean-ups: any articulation of human interaction with water. In the archive, each artifact is linked to a resource. Artifact transaction profits accrue to the resource through equity shares. 

It's as if nature suddenly had a way of holding on to her profits. With its own equity, a water resource can sponsor its own remediation. For example, the equity a beautiful beach collects through the sale of sunset NFTs funds beach clean-up projects. 

Participants make investments by buying artifacts or by donating labor. Proportional to their investments, participants acquire voting power, which can be spent on water projects such as beach clean-ups and the operation of the organization. Because the archive is organized around specific resources, it can aggregate people's interests regionally. Lessons learned can inspire actions in other locations: the archive can scale local engagement to global reach.