担任过新墨西哥水渠灌溉管理员的斯坦利·克劳福德(Stanley Crawford)在他的文章中曾描写过两个邻居：“关系从来不好……下游的邻居通常指责上游的邻居从来不让水流到他的地方，并且还指责他在偶尔往下游放水的时候往水里倒垃圾。”其实，这种争夺水的对立关系最早可追溯到新石器时代，也就是人类在公元 Stanley Crawford, a former New Mexico canal and irrigation manager, described two neighbors in his essay: “The relationship has never been good ... Downstream neighbors usually accuse neighbors upstream of never letting water flow To his place, and also accused him of pouring water into the water while traveling down the river occasionally. ”In fact, the antithesis of this scramble for water dates back to the Neolithic,