Today I found this silly video from the 1940s, shared on Facebook by Julia Gifford:
It's outdated, cheesy, silly, perhaps mildly inappropriate (the rain is starting gang wars?) but also a tiny bit discouraging. People knew that they were degrading watersheds in the 1940s, and people tried to stop it from happening, but in so many cases it still did.
Things are changing, but very slowly.
Stories about the ways water moves through natural and human-constructed landscapes... what we can learn from it and how we can use old and new ideas to understand, appreciate, and sustainably use this resource.
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