Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience
Water is a dynamic and variable resource, with shifting and changing states and flows. In one of our more foolish endeavors, however, rather than embrace this dynamism, humans have continually tried — and failed — to control water. We succeed — for a time. Sometimes even for decades. But these are pyrrhic victories, and water always wins.
This reality has yet to be fully accepted, particularly by those directing investments in water management and infrastructure.
We have built up and often inhabit areas where flooding is a regular occurrence. We continue to farm in regions prone to drought, and, at great effort and expense, attempt to divert water to places it is not meant to go, or away from areas to which it naturally flows...