Italian Watersheds

All Rivers Run to the Sea

Water is life. That may be a cliche, but it is also a fundamental truth. Without water nothing can live, and certainly not human beings. We depend on it directly to keep our bodies functioning but we also depend on it in indirect ways: To water our crops and to provide rivers in which goods may be shipped. And -- and this is no small thing itself -- because they provide beauty to our lives. However, despite the fact that water is vital, we (as humans) are all too often disinclined to care for it.

All environmental preservation must include an aspect of protection for watersheds. Indeed, protection of watersheds must often be at the center of a sound environmental policy. This paper examines the state of two Italian watersheds and what their future may be. That future, of course, will be...
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