People have been able to use these landscapes to their advantage. Some deposits e.g. till can be fertile and well drained. East Anglia in England has productive arable farmland as a result of the underlying glacial deposits. Loess deposits are particularly fertile.

As outwash plains are made up of sorted materials where the deposits have already been graded into different sized fragments many quarries exploit these materials.

As in the uplands lakes produced by ice in the lowlands are used for recreation and water supply.

However, these landscapes can also cause problems. Many soils made by glacial deposition are not fertile and can be poorly drained making marshland. The lakes in lowland areas can make transport more difficult.