A sneak preview of our presentation at the ECHO conference this week. This is a map showing to of the important watersheds on the island of Hispanola, the Artibonite watershed and the Enriquillo watershed. The grey line in the center of the map is the Haitian/Dominican border and you can see in  the case of both watersheds that they are partly in both countries. This underscores the complicated nature of the ecological relationship between the two countries and how the people of this island are linked in multiple ways. In fact it is hard to find  a map like this and the few watershed maps out there tend to show these river systems essentially stopping at the border, as if nothing existed on the other side. But the reality is that people living in the border regions depend on each other regardless of nationality, often more than they rely on their fellow citizens in distant capitals.