Students for Stewardship · Water
One body of work, three lenses. The same water — where it falls, how the ground has hardened, and what that does to the creeks — followed from the whole city down to a single stream cross-section. All of it built from open public data.
Keep water at elevation · slow it, spread it, sink it · the same story at every scale
Zoom in. Each lens is a working atlas of its own — and together they read the same landscape from three heights.
City → watershed → stream
How hard our ground has gotten — impervious cover, land-surface heat, the canopy we're losing — and the water-resources ask we want the City to write into its code while there's still time.
Read any watershed's water story from open data — the ground it sits on, how fast it's hardening, and the runoff that hardening sends downstream. Six watersheds so far, from a still-green creek to a whole impaired city river.
Down in the channel itself: cross-sections, longitudinal profiles, and the geomorphology of four South Carolina streams — where the banks are unraveling, where the bed is filling, and what a real restoration would have to fix.
The through-line
At the city scale it shows up as heat and lost canopy. At the watershed scale it shows up as more runoff from the same storm. At the stream scale it shows up as banks pulling apart and beds filling with sediment. It's one story, and it has one response: stop exporting the water — keep it at elevation, and let it sink in where it lands.
None of that is exotic, and none of it waits on new technology. It's a design problem, and a solvable one — which is the whole reason to make the water legible in the first place.
Slow it · spread it · sink it