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So farmers engineer land so that heavy rain will run off into streams, rivers, and ultimately cause flooding someplace in Iowa. This is of course to prevent flo
by phkahler 3y ago
So farmers engineer land so that heavy rain will run off into streams, rivers, and ultimately cause flooding someplace in Iowa. This is of course to prevent flooding the fields and drowning crops. Then they pump ground water to water crops when there isn't enough rain. What we need is a way to store the runoff and get it into the ground. This would likely require some land use, and a bit of money to set up, for little immediate benefit.
- hinkley 3y agoSoil carbon. It’s called soil carbon.
- bobthepanda 3y agoCisterns and lakes are not exactly new. The issue is that you need to take somebody’s land to do it, and no one wants to be the one to lose so everyone else wins. Interestingly this is also happening at the micro level in urban areas with bioswales the size of parking spaces.