Here are some interesting facts to help celebrate the ways water has affected our everyday lives. Windmills helped ensure a water supply for early settlers in North America. Where there were constant swift prairie winds, windmills were used to pump well water to the surgace.
Windmills are abundant in Holland also.
The first conservation issue to which Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, devoted himself was the irrigation of arid Western lands, for settling. Sam Collins, a Texas pipeline builder, was the first to extract diamonds on a commercial scale from the seabeds of South Africa's Forbidden Coast. The earliest reference to a method for capturing the energy of tides is in the Domesday Book, a chronicle of all British financial holdings undertaken by William the Conqueror in 1086. The sport was not revived until after Word War II, when it was recognized as an asset to the islands' tourist economy. Almost every nation relies on the animal resources of the world's oceans for food, but Japan and Russia are perhaps the two most industrialized fishing nations in the world.