Thousands of years ago, you wanted to live near the water source. As close as possible. Because you spent a lot of your personal and communal time and energy managing your water supply.
Traveling to it and back. Carrying it. Caring for it. A lot.
The closer you were to the source, the less time and energy you needed to spend on traveling and carrying. Therefore, the community usually arranged itself around the water source, both geographically and organizationally.
Then someone had a great idea: “You know, if we dug here, and put some rocks over there, I think we could make the water come to us.”
Boom. Less time. Less energy. More Options.
So the question now is, where are you spending that extra time and energy?
