If you drive the 1,000 or so miles from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, near Fairbanks, Alaska, you will not see many motels, fast food joints, miniature golf courses, water parks or other hallmarks of North American road trips.
On drives through the bedroom community of 25,000, he has seen homeowners, businesses and golf courses watering their lawns even when it rains, so there's enough blame to go around.
"Of course water is a growth business".
Yes, of course, water takes center stage.
Water to drink, of course, water for agriculture, for animals.
On the Merion course, water stood in fairways, and walking paths assumed a Woodstockian muddiness.
You can reach the beach by car, subway, Long Island Rail Road or, of course, Water Taxi.
Technically, of course, water is not in the element in which we humans usually move.
Buck's home-dug lake, gatorless, appeared about as exotic as some miniature-golf-course water trap.
I gazed at the river a few hundred yards away, because the simple, coursing water often quiets all sorts of ills in a way that defies explanation.
Of course, water is also useful for drinking, hygiene, irrigation and extracting oxygen for the Mars colonies Jain, Elon Musk, and others are so keen on creating.
