Post #3250975
2023-03-06 00:03 UTC
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...the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (#SGMA), that promotes the practice. It requires farmers to treat aquifers like bank accounts, clamping down on overdrafts but also allowing those who deposit water into them to make bigger withdrawals later."
It is a very interesting proposition and in combination with new (solar panels, where feasible) and re-discovered ( #WaruWaru) farming technologies, more arable land should remain for this century...
https://www.science.org/content/article/can-california-s-floods-help-recharge-depleted-groundwater-supplies
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@HistoPol@mastodon.social 2023-03-06 15:20
(5/15) As I have learned from this #Oxfam video about "Culturas hidráulicas de #Moxos"* and the "#camellones", the latest research dates the raised-field technology in #SouthAmerica even earlier, to 850 to 1,000 BCE. Furthermore, this technology was in use in many more regions of #SouthAmerica. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMUnTYhuzo In the language of the conquering tribe, #Quechua, the term is #WaruWaru. However, using the term in...