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If it were as simple as water removed can never return, then all ground would eventually become impermeable over time as periodic dry seasons incrementally do t
by lupusreal 3y ago
If it were as simple as water removed can never return, then all ground would eventually become impermeable over time as periodic dry seasons incrementally do their work.
Some aquifers are as he says and others aren't. Some aquifers readily refill when it rains while others cannot, or cannot on human-relevant timescales.
- sumtechguy 3y agoWater linger is what is needed. There are ways to accomplish that. But it means undoing decades of making that not happen. Then once you figure out the water linger problem you have to figure out the soil fungus/plants/animals. So it does not just all run off again. Probably the worst thing we did was decimating the beaver population. That takes time to fix.