Creeks Quote by Aldo Leopold

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost…

— Sandra Postel

Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet…

— Hal Borland

Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where…

— Jeremy Wade

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have…

— John Breaux

“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is…

— Faith A. Colburn

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

— Jim Fowler

There are certain rivers which can be linked, which will be beneficial especially for flood mitigation... It will be very useful process, but all…

— Jaggi Vasudev

“In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to…

— Zadie Smith

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

— John Anderson

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is…

— Billy Tauzin