EditorialA View from the Park near Highgate, looking over the Hampstead Reservoirs towards London. A view from a hill looking down over water, grass, trees and buildings; a large tree in the foreground on the right; the dome of St Paul's Cathedral and London in...
EditorialTrunk-like noses of the rain-god Chac form the cornice of the East Building, Quadrangle of the Nuns, Uxmal. Uxmal lies on a dry limestone plateau and the only water supply came from rain, collected in huge reservoirs, hence the importance of the rain-god.
EditorialThe Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon reservoir, the first of 16 planned in the Deux-Sèvres region, in France, Nov. 8, 2022. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialThe high-tech artificial turf installed by Erin Brockovich, a water-quality activist portrayed by Julia Roberts in an Academy Award-winning film, next to her neighbor’s real grass, in Agoura Hills, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, Aug. 12, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)