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This is the United States.
This is Louisiana and this is New Orleans.
And without constant human intervention, this city literally wouldn't exist.
It has perhaps the worst geographic location of any major city in America and there are countless reasons why that are all named water.
New Orleans is a city that is almost completely surrounded by water on all sides.
To the north is lake Pontchartrain, in the center is the Mississippi river, and to the south and east is the ever-encroaching sea water from the Gulf of Mexico.
To make matters even worse, 65% of the New Orleans metropolitan area is located either at or beneath sea level, a greater percentage than even the Netherlands which is only about a third beneath sea level.
This means that when you take a look at New Orleans from the side, it's effectively just a big bowl that's surrounded on nearly all of its edges by water.
