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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Yes. Throughout history, people have almost always built their settlements close to major bodies of (fresh) water. For example, you'd be hard-pressed to find a major city anywhere in the world that doesn't have at least a stream near where it was founded, if not a full-blown river that still runs through the middle of it.

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    Early planners took advantage of such opportunity by damming the creek

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The creek is 3 feet wide in places and can dry up during dry seasons. The "lake" is 3 feet deep. The city was founded there because the governor owned land on the bald prairie, not the river valley where the fort and city already existed. Water is piped in from a lake several miles away.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Las Vegas being the exception that kind of proves the rule.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you look at the top 10 cities, all of them have a river, except Mexico City. That’s the real outlier. Large cities require lots of water, and that city is a really weird exception.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tenochtitlan was a "floating city", with artificial islands created on top of Lake Texcoco. Mexico City was founded on top of the ruins of the old Aztec capital and the lake was mostly drained.

    To overcome the problems of drinking water, the Aztecs built a system of dams to separate the salty waters of the lake from the rain water of the effluents.

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