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Short stints of extreme rainfall don’t do anything beneficial. You need existing mass water storage, and even if you can keep the water it doesn’t magically sol
by olliej 3y ago
Short stints of extreme rainfall don’t do anything beneficial. You need existing mass water storage, and even if you can keep the water it doesn’t magically solve the problem of limited nutrients in sand (and in fact can reduce the amount of nutrients in future due to runoff)
The lack of nutrients, and the dearth of plants that can retain water while also handling the more common case of no water and extreme heat further limit any idea of what planting crops to prevent run off.
- Log_out_ 3y agoYou can store it permanently by daming up wadis?
- ulfw 3y agoYou gonna dam up a wadi overnight?
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThe UAE might be one of the few places on earth that would try. I'd bet they're seriously considering building a system like those giant flood mitigation tanks under Tokyo. Both to avoid severe flooding, and to bank a huge amount of freshwater. Then, there's no flooding even close to this for decades.