What's to stop us diverting a watercourse to create our own riverside idyll?

摘要

Why do we so often want to be by the water - even away from the season when many actually want to be in the water? I sit pondering this in an Australian city called Gold Coast where the first generation who escaped into the sun away from Melbourne and Sydney were attracted by the surf and the beach. But as they continued to come in their tens of thousands, they became willing players in another game of 'hug the water', only this time along a series of inland lagoons fashioned out of a pliant river delta, where they could have a landing stage and a boat (pity about the sharks).