#drainagebasin — Public Fediverse posts

#Solarpunk #writing and #art idea:

A #watershed #map instead of a political or elevation one.

Imagining a world divided into bio-regions not by some arbitrary political body, but by the rivers and water circulation.

We could make it into a beautiful symbol of a sustainable future.

More about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_divide

The one below is a work of https://www.grasshoppergeography.com/

"A Half Built Garden" book by Ruthanna Emrys implements such a vision!

#geography #drainageBasin #riverBasin

I was reading about history of the #UnitedStates and came across this nice #DrainageBasin #map.

“The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US”

https://www.reeldealanglers.com/the-veins-of-america-stunning-map-shows-every-river-basin-in-the-us/

thanks to the work of mapmaker and data analyst Robert Szucs, you won’t be able to come upon at a river without considering the particular sea into which it flows. He’s created what he calls “the first ever map of the world’s rivers divided into ocean drainage basins,”
#mapporn #worldmap#worldmap #maps #rivers #drainagebasin #oceans

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/all-the-rivers-of-the-world-shown-in-rainbow-colors-a-data-visualization-to-explore.html

John Wesley Powell was right https://ioc.exchange/@mgsquires/110506456485381514 via @mgsquires

#JohnWesleyPowell #water #drainagebasin #

“America’s story had always closely aligned with that of Exodus—the tale of a people who left behind an oppressive Old World to enter a wilderness and ultimately build a divinely inspired, promised land.

How would that promise look?

Powell singlehandedly tried to change the American narrative.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/visionary-john-wesley-powell-had-plan-developing-west-nobody-listened-180969182/

#watermanagement #drainagebasin #americanwest #johnwesleypowell

Biggest storm since 2011 has San Diego County in ‘crosshairs’: “The San Diego River watershed will receive about 300,000 acre feet of water, enough to serve about 500,000 homes for a year if there was a way to capture it all, said Marty Ralph, director of UC San Diego’s Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes.”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/black-ice-on-I-8 via @sdut

#sandiego #AtmosphericRiver #drainagebasin #watermanagement #UCSD #watershed

Atmospheric Rivers FTW, now just need water management to survive and thrive

https://fox5sandiego.com/weather/ap-warming-to-make-california-downpours-even-wetter-study-says/

#AtmosphericRiver #California #watermanagement #aquifers #beavers #upzoning #urbanplanning #drainagebasin

“the Colorado River system is in a state of collapse. It is a collapse hastened by climate change but also a crisis of management.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-water-war-is-brewing-over-the-dwindling-colorado-river

#climatechange #WaterWars #WesternUS #JohnWesleyPowell #agriculture #aquifer #drainagebasin #watermanagement #coloradoriver #WaterFootprint