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Why isn't the appropriate use of water a defining, central component in the education of landscape architects?    That question has rattled around in my head for a long, long time, basically because it has no adequate or satisfactory answer.  I'm a trained landscape architect and, as luck would have it, for nearly 20 years I've had one foot in the pool industry and the other in landscape architecture - and I've always felt like a rare beast moving back and forth between two entirely separate worlds.   As I see it, this lack of affinity between these water-related industries has been a limiting factor in the advancement of the watershaping trades.  For me, the lack of connection has always seemed nonsensical when it hasn't seemed tragic. As a watershaper, a big part of my work in recent years has been seeking ways to combine the best of both worlds and share what I know with university-level students in landscape architecture departments - students whose chairs I occupied some years ago and who still stand a good chance of graduating without ever having been taught anything at all about how water can

Why isn't the appropriate use of water a defining, central component in the education of landscape architects?    That question has rattled around in my head for a long, long time, basically because it has no adequate or satisfactory answer.  I'm a trained landscape architect and, as luck would have it, for nearly 20 years I've had one foot in the pool industry and the other in landscape architecture - and I've always felt like a rare beast moving back and forth between two entirely separate worlds.   As I see it, this lack of affinity between these water-related industries has been a limiting factor in the advancement of the watershaping trades.  For me, the lack of connection has always seemed nonsensical when it hasn't seemed tragic. As a watershaper, a big part of my work in recent years has been seeking ways to combine the best of both worlds and share what I know with university-level students in landscape architecture departments - students whose chairs I occupied some years ago and who still stand a good chance of graduating without ever having been taught anything at all about how water can