"We've engineered things so that it feels individual. No one can tell me what kind of lawn to have, because it's my water," he says. "This is a collective resource and a collective project that we need to figure out how to divy up." The question is whether politicians will see this not as a consumer issue, but as a citizenship issue.
As humans, we like to believe that we shape the natural world. But in reality, its laws and patterns have deeply structured our own society. To tell the story of how water has shaped humanity, on the show this week is Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography. Check it out at http://factuallypod.com/books
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