W
ater has historically been
viewed as the source of
life in almost all human
cultures, and with good reason.
The
origins of civilization have always
been closely tied to large bodies of
water.
The Yellow River in China,
the Euphrates in Persia, and the...
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W
ater has historically been
viewed as the source of
life in almost all human
cultures, and with good reason.
The
origins of civilization have always
been closely tied to large bodies of
water.
The Yellow River in China,
the Euphrates in Persia, and the
Nile in Egypt enabled those early
empires to flourish.
However,
our urban centers today are far
more populated and require
much more water than these early
civilizations.
The abundance of
water on the globe has given
mankind the false conception of
fresh water as an infinite resource.
In fact, freshwater comprises
only 3 percent of the earth’s total
water supply, much of which is locked
in the polar ice caps1.
This false conception has led to extremely unsustainable modern methods of water
management to provide for our urban
centers.
Understanding the earth’s natural
water cycle and the land’s watershed
are the keys to sustainable water
management.
The process is relatively
simple to explain, in contrast, the
effects of our alte
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