We all need the same basic things---air to breath, water to drink, and food to eat. Everything I've read and learned from experience says polluted air and water will kill you, and may poison your food.
If controlling runoff is aimed at keeping the water we need to drink pure, then it would make sense to control runoff. Runoff goes into our lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater, which is where our drinking water comes from. If there is some other reason to control runoff, then we need to identify it, and ask if it makes sense. If the reason is to protect the purity of our drinking water, I'm all for it. Anyone want to drink polluted water?
