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Near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet California winter
- ChuckMcM 11y agoGiven the trend to wetter seasons in the south I wonder if anyone is thinking about increasing reservoir capacity there?
- greglindahl 11y agoHere's one project that's starting: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-stormwater-plan-20150625-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-stormwater-pla... Enough rainwater falls on LA to provide for all of LA's water needs. Now almost all of this rain goes into the ocean.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoThat is awesome, thanks for that link.
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- apsec112 11y agoI think you're commenting on the wrong page. WeatherWest isn't paywalled.
- esturk 11y agoI've always wondered how sensible is it to dig temporary holes/ditches that will store excess amounts of water and then later fill it back up once we're done with it. This is similar to how an empty swimming pool may be used to store excess rainfall. Perhaps the work put into it isn't worth the effort?
- ketralnis 11y agoIs this not what reservoirs are?
- guelo 11y agoRight. It is impractical to dig a ditch big enough to matter. That's why you damn up mountain canyons instead.
- ipsum2 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater_recharge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater_recharge > Groundwater is recharged naturally by rain and snow melt and to a smaller extent by surface water (rivers and lakes).
- bashinator 11y agoThis doesn't work when you've collapsed your aquifers through excess pumping. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140819-groundwater-california-drought-aquifers-hidden-crisis/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140819-groun...
- mapt 11y agoIndia's arid areas appear to have some experience with 'check dams' for precisely this purpose - turning monsoonal wet seasons into year-round wellwater. http://lawschool.unm.edu/nrj/volumes/48/3/03_agoramoorthy_indian.pdf http://lawschool.unm.edu/nrj/volumes/48/3/03_agoramoorthy_in... http://www.researchgate.net/publication/247773763_A_review_on_managed_aquifer_recharge_by_check_dams_A_case_study_near_Chennai_India http://www.researchgate.net/publication/247773763_A_review_o... http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/CABI_Publications/CA_CABI_Series/Ground_Water/protected/Giordano_1845931726-Chapter10.pdf http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/CABI_Publications/CA_... Digging ditches is much less cost-effective for this purpose than building small dams, though they seem to have also worked with those, ditches filled with rocks under a cover and used as a storage tank.
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- eCa 11y agoMeanwhile, Northern Europe has just seen one of the driest Octobers for a long while. Large areas has received less than five percent of normal precipitation. Stockholm has never had so little rain in October since measurements started back in 1786, beating a record from 1866. Will be interesting to see if this continues into winter.
- fungi 11y agoDoes El Nino have an affect Europe? Maybe a good time to buy wheat futures? Australia's east coast wheat crop is going to have a rough year or three.
- derrida 11y agoMeanwhile, greatest environmental disaster of this century is underway in Indonesia. Heard of it? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indones...
- derrida 11y agoMeanwhile, greatest environmental disaster of this century is underway in Indonesia. 3 weeks more C02 has been released than annually in Germany & is currently releasing more C02 than the US economy. The flip side to this forecast in California. Heard of it? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indones...