Ancient practices to increase water storage in desert aquifers 💧💦 | Waterpedia #WaterWednesday

A video from Waterpedia on #WaterWednesday about how modern scientists are using ancient practices to try to increase water storage in desert aquifers.

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[korliyon]

The sharp graph also describes the audio in this video

[denniso]

The sudden burst of audio in the end almost gave me a heart attack. I like the animation thou.

[abitoftheuniverse]

For anyone watching this and picking up with the error in making this video keeping the sound level, keep this in mind, watch your own video before you upload it, especially if you do any sort of editing, like putting clips, animation, video or recordings together in your editor/video maker, of choice.

As for the subject discussed in this video, I think it's a brilliant thing that people do this around to world. I live in Michigan, and love this area, this is what the Great Lakes on one of the largest scales on Earth; giant catchment basins for rainwater. This sort of thing is going to be tremendously important for Earth, all around the globe. And the more things people are putting out on the subject, the better. The evaporation of water from the oceans, is only going to rise as sea levels and the surface area of them, increases, along with expected temperatures. Plant life has the ability to counteract that in many ways, and we can even find an abundance of more food, and resources, along with the plant life, that will help to make vast areas of Earth, like the desert regions, one day, not just habitable, but, places where life can flourish, in much the same way as it flourishes all around the Great Lakes.

Someday I hope we can do this on the grandest of scales; to retain water in places we need it most, but, also to store up the Earth's water, in the land, and find a greater abundance of all life, balances out, with the water available on the surface of the wondrous source of life, that is, this planet.

[RandyRandersonthefamous]

Extremely useful information. If only public works focused on working with nature instead of against it!

[SweetLoveTarot]

It would be great if you would repost this at an audible level.

[downbntout]

Nice presentation. Cattle managed properly can improve vegetation and repair eroded streambanks. A single hoofprint, shallow or deeper, provides a spot for a bit of infiltration and a harbor for seeds spread by winds. Plant roots encourage infiltration greatly

[marksandsberry]

There is a drastic drop-off in volume after the intro. Wearing headphones and turning up the volume to hear the video gave me a sudden blast of overly loud wrapup noise at the end.

[downunderfulla]

It’s certainly works well in the Middle East

[kdtxo]

good information....totally inadequate audio volume level. Please go in and boost it up

[Heather-xmul]

Why is the intro insanely loud, and the rest of video is nearly on mute?

[someperson]

Very interesting. What did you find out?

[dr.froghopper]

This is probably pretty interesting but I can only hear someone reading something exceedingly quietly in the background.

[MRSketch]

Headphone users... R.I.P after 03:18....

Besides that, this was an interesting video, although I had to strain to hear the speaker, which is annoying.

[chrishoo]

These new barriers also collect silt & slow erosion, so an all round good thing.

[justgivemethetruth]

Just to let you know ... your audio is very low, but that whistling thing at the end is super loud.

[jacquest]

Interesting. If there is enough funding, they can also dig side way channels, so the water can reach more parts and have more time to penetrate the area. Also try create a type of mesh(to simulate the function of vegetation) to insert into the river banks to retain the water for longer.

[themaccabee]

Good work.... It really helps 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻..

[bslturtle]

That the ranchers tore down the indian's dams is questionable, it would have helped them. They most likely didn't maintain them though.
The greatest influence was their cattle. The cattle ate the grass, trampled and hardened the soils, this reduced the friction on the water flowing INTO the arroyos causing higher peaked, more sudden flows. Hydrology 101.

[douglasstraight]

Please fix the audio so the volume is louder.

[solohash]

Ear pain alert near the end of this video turn down your ears phones other than that great video