Blog: Think About Your Water Ways

This spring, I’ve been flying and driving a lot. If you pay attention to it, it’s amazing to witness the impact that water has on the land and on our development patterns. 

 When I fly, I prefer a window seat. From the sky, you see the reflective shimmering waters of lakes, ponds, and rivers. But you also see their forms: rivers winding through the landscape, paralleled by ribbons of highways and railroads); multi-fingered lakes filling up former valleys; cities, towns, industries crowded along waterways; fertile, green land crisscrossed with rows of irrigation. Although it’s often hard to understand the magnitude of the terrain from the air, the picture becomes clearer just by seeing the changes in vegetation.

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