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Since ancient times, and more intensively from the mid-19th century, land in the mountain region is developing and the space belonging to land and water has been reduced. On the surface that previously belonged to the river have developed agriculture, transport routes and settlements. At the end of the 20th century, development spread over hazardous areas, many torrent flowed in highly confined channels, and ground water recharges drop down, instability of land surface and security for inhabitants decreased. This resulted in the changes reducing water resources of appropriate quality, reducing space for sediment deposit, increasing erosion, affecting natural habitats, causing major flood damage, decreasing groundwater stock, and deteriorating water quality. The water regime integrates all events across space from landslides, debris flow and is manifested in river regime in low lands. This problem is partially covered by many United Nations (UN) and UNESCO documents and reports. Proper actions are also suggested in the Ministerial Declaration from the 7th World Water Forum, where the first mentioned action is the significance of appropriate land management in relation to sustainable water management and planning. More room for landslides control means more space for potential landslide control out man made impacts that cause land slope instability, more space for torrents, more space for water and sediment storages, less impact on the slope stability and higher security for the peoples. We should change paradigm of space planning and development, especially in countries in development under intensive urbanization. The aim of this paper is to present particularly bad examples from Slovenia in order to support this proposal.