Read the article of Joan Didion’s “Holy Water” and answer the following question:

I know as well as the next person that there is considerable transcendent slue in a riser running wild and undammed. a river "running free over granite." D dion writes. "but I have also bed beneath such a river when it was limning in flood, and gone without shower when it was running dry' (par. 9). Consider Didion's argument in this essay concerning the necessity of controlling water through technological means in the light of arguments against dams and other such rerouting of water's natural course. Should people live 'acre water is so scatty? If you want, consider this idea In larger terms: Should people live where nature is inhospitable because of scarcity:y or because of the danger of weather-related catastrophes?