I am student in the United States interested in how to implement water management and transportation master plans and am hoping to integrate my background in water engineering/management and landscape architecture in particular to design large scale water resources and transportation projects to effectively manage water quantity, improve water quality, bring community awareness to the natural water cycle, and promote non-motorized transportation. I have an opportunity to work/study landscape architecture in the Netherlands which is a model country that has learned how to integrate intelligent water management into society and make it successful with regards to both aesthetics and politics; Although I can hardly live off the pay and I'll acquire more debt. On the other hand I have recently been working at a water resources engineering and urban planning firm in Seattle where the pay is good and I am learning a lot about the technical skills of water management.While I am not initially exposed to landscape architecture and the technical work is really demanding and not too creative there is opportunity in the future to mesh landscape architecture into my work. I feel like there is a lot of potential for my situation in Seattle. While the Dutch are experts in water management there is a lot of room for improvement and opportunity to implement better water management strategies here in the states and in WA. What better place to start then homebase?! I guess I wanted to input on peoples' experience related to pursuing environmental change here in the states versus abroad i.e. North Europe. Perhaps as a society Europe may be more conscious of the environmental threats, but encouraging change here within the states may be more daunting at first and the scale is much larger but there is more potential to have a global impact if public perception and peoples actions start to reflect the importance of living/respecting within our surrounding environment....