Welcome to the July Water Features issue!

In this issue you will find several spectacular projects, from the largest private development in the United States, to a single man-made cloud floating over a small park in the city of steel. Hopefully you will notice that LASN has also upgraded to brighter paper stock, making the water glisten even more . . .

You know . . . Living in Southern California in the midst of a severe drought, it is as m(i)stifying to see the water leaping into the air and rolling down the falls as it is frustrating to know that these projects would never be acceptable in our dry part of the world. Most cities are built on or around rivers, or at least around great bodies of fresh water, but L.A., the second largest city in the U.S., is built on the edge of a desert, fed by rivers more than 200 miles away. So when we lined up the article submissions for the water features issue, all we could do was shake our heads and wonder what it would be like to live in a water rich part of the country.

That aside and for now, though, sit back and revel in the wondrous world of flowing, glowing and blowing water . . . And who knows . . . Maybe the predicted El Niño will bring all the water we need to the southwest, and we can start to build projects like these everywhere . . . Ok . . . Maybe not. But a guy can dream . . . Right?



God Bless . . .
George Schmok, Publisher