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The headwaters of two streams, Basin Creek and Fools Creek, flow on either side of the divide. They were only a few yards apart, but the waters of Basin Creek would eventually empty into the Pacific Ocean, and Fools Creek would flow into the Atlantic.
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
In contrast to the view of many people today, water was not perceived as a barrier to communication and transport but rather as a means of facilitating it. Island and coastal communities would not have been considered remote and inaccessible, but instead as being closely connected to each other through an extensive network of maritime routes. A key
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Barnes reports that Egyptian farmers in the Nile Valley maintain irrigation ditches not just to keep the water flowing, but also to “sustain communal ties with other farmers.” 20 Similar protocols prevail in Nikhil Anand’s Hydraulic City, in which the anthropologist shows how the maintenance of water infrastructures binds residents, plumbers, engin... See more
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