@breton@climatejustice.social @WIRED@press.coop @climate@a.gup.pe Rainwater via river systems finds its way quickly into the sea. In the absence of swales to retain water and replenish aquifers cistern solutions make sense. There were Roman island colonies that used cisterns and ancient India built a large number of them to survive droughts. They were filled with trash for a while but some have been brought back into use. Green activists of the 1970's are the reason people switched from bio-degradable paper bags to plastic bags.