October 16, 2005. Bergamo, Italy receives it's watershed from very distant beginnings. Those distant and bearly discernable places are called 'head waters.' In the USA 'The Clean Water Act' has come under attack as being excessive in it's specificity of protection to headwaters and overland flow hundred miles away. Those protections under The Clean Water Act are not excessive or unusal. Countries like Italy practice those same protections for it's safe waterways, water supply and fisheries. It is 'odd' to realize 'head waters' actually starts in some places at elevations far above sea level and hundreds of miles away from civilization.