In Tamera, we began constructing the first water retention space in 2007. The proposal came from Sepp Holzer, who has supported us for a long time in the renaturalization and healing of Tamera’s land. Until then, we thought we lived in a dry country. When he showed us the dimensions of the first planned water retention space, the question arose of how long it would take for such a large basin to fill up with water. “Lake 1,” as it is known today, is located in the center of our site. The idea of having to watch over a dusty, half-empty pool for years did not motivate us to take this first step toward the planned Water Retention Landscape. Then, to make things clear to ourselves, we had the idea of calculating the average annual amount of precipitation falling upon the catchment area of the retention space. In our minds, we filled containers with this water, each with a capacity of one cubic meter, and placed them one after the other in a row that reached a length spanning almost 1000km from Tamera to Barcelona. That was enough to launch us out of the system of scarcity thinking. In that very same year, we began construction.