Since ancient times, humans have tried to make water serve political ends, as a foundation of empire and a weapon in wartime.
Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world.
Read previous columnsIn “Chinatown,” Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 film noir, loosely based on the events surrounding the diversion of water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles in 1913, an ex-politician warns: “Beneath this building, beneath every street, there’s a desert. Without water the dust will rise up and cover us as though we’d never existed!”
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