mymthinking about how if a raindrop falls in one place on Sheridan Road it will end up in the sewer system, discharge into the Chicago River, flow southwest down the Mississippi, and in about three months find itself in the Gulf of Mexico; and if it falls in a slightly different place it will slide down the beach into the Lake and spend the next 130 years traveling northeast to the Gulf of St. Lawrence
do you ever just think about watersheds
SnoopJ (IS IN San Francisco)
AvonLovesBlake
Watershed
Cromley
liferstate@mym All the time. I live in a drainage basin abutting an international waterway (Detroit).
My mentor in the wine biz had a pet theory that wine regions should be demarcated not by political boundaries but by riversheds. It works pretty well in Western Europe (the Loire, Rhone, Mosel/Moselle, etc). In North America wines from MI, NY, ON, and QC have more similarities than not: they're all products of the Great Lakes watershed.
George Dinwiddie@mym @liferstate
Back in the 1970’s, Peter Warshall made a good argument in the CoEvolution Quarterly that political boundaries should be determined by watersheds.
Back in the 1970’s, Peter Warshall made a good argument in the CoEvolution Quarterly that political boundaries should be determined by watersheds.
Simon Brooke@mym Yes, indeed; I've written software to try to model watersheds and drainage flows (I'm not very satisfied with it). When I walk landscapes I always notice how water moves through the land.