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Anyone know if this 3x rain is even 1.5x as effective in recharging aquifers? Iirc Punjab (across both India and Pakistan) has had a groundwater pumping rate of 3x recharge rate which is why entire northern subcontinent has been on the brink of water table collapse for years…
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By the end of August Pakistan had received three times its annual average rainfall. Why is it getting so much rain? econ.st/3AFkPbc
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I briefly studied this stuff 20y ago… without a proper system of small local check dams (not huge dams), and other local watershed management methods, you capture about 4% of rainfall. If you do it right, it rises 5x to about 20%. I’d guess globally the situation is closer to 4%
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There’s maybe a handful of landowners in CA thinking this way, but it was settled with an extractive mindset and a whole tangled hierarchy of water privileges. Pretty sure P. A. Yeomans style dams are highly illegal in most cases, as they’d threaten the hierarchy.
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