The topic for this post is water. More specifically, storm water. Because we have paved so much of our world, water behaves differently when it falls from the sky. It no longer has the same freedom and collects in runoffs that can get out of control if the rain-fall is sudden and sustained.

Primarily US based, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) website has a great page of feature stories that can give some insight about storm water and how it's different from other types of water-flow and runoff. According to their twitter page, they are a "Not-for-profit technical & educational organization representing water quality professionals around the world." You can follow them @WEForg if that's your thing.

Is the management of storm water going to turn out to be a viable solution? That remains to be seen. The point is that we keep trying things and aren't too proud to say, "Woops! That didn't turn out so well. Lets try something else."

I don't know about you, but, the biggest problems I see when it comes to the destruction of our environment is that we can be stubborn about changing the way we do things.