Water Infrastructure
Watermark: Along the California Aqueduct
Places Journal
The extraordinary achievement of modern California — the transformation of a semi-arid region into an abundant and prosperous place — has produced a wicked tangle of problems.
Thirsty City
Places Journal
An environmental historian assesses the massive infrastructure that brings water to the American West — and makes it possible to take a shower in Los Angeles.
Water Is Wealth
Places Journal
In Honolulu, environmental activists are seeking to remake their city according to Indigenous design knowledge. What is happening in Waikīkī might be a model for a new watershed urbanism.
Mitigations
Places Journal
In the coal country of Southeast Ohio, the past is a renewable resource, growing larger every year.
Drylands: Water and the West
Places Journal
Our hydrological infrastructure is now nearly obsolete. Water is rapidly becoming the largest and least understood environmental challenge of the 21st century.
Growing Water
Places Journal
A bold proposal by a team of Chicago urban designers for how cities can ensure the availability of an increasingly scarce resource.