Why Dryland Farming is a Big Mistake

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  • @id10t98
    @id10t98 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In 2008 I proposed what I called the Oregon Water Project and sent it to many legislators and water agencies in every western and south western state in the USA and sadly got very little feedback or interest shown. The solution is fresh water catchment and pipelines.
    This plan pointed out that on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington, it rains over 200 inches in some parts with 140 inches in lower elevations as "average". Also, just 600-800 miles north in southeast Alaska, it also rains 140+/- inches on average in some places with many alpine lakes having some of the cleanest water available.
    This plan also pointed out that in the state of Oregon and Washington, many man made reservoirs are drained every year in anticipation of winter rains and springtime snowmelt filling them back up and perhaps their levels could be better maintained at higher levels with the run-off being piped to California, Nevada and possibly Arizona.
    By building some catchment systems and pipelines, these acts could be sending millions of acre-feet of fresh water to where it's needed in the western USA, each and every year.
    But what do I know? I'm just an ID10T.

    • @thought605
      @thought605 ปีที่แล้ว

      Appreciate your Effort ❤

    • @thetruth45678
      @thetruth45678 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Legislators don't want that. That would reinforce our production and improve GDP. They are actively reducing production and GDP in anticipation of collapse. Why? Because nations are obsolete. Global management is the new norm, and strong countries impede that goal.

  • @sciologist
    @sciologist ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Attempting to farm the dry porous desert sand is a waste of water. It take 200 times more water to farm the desert than the east coast, which has an abundance of rain.

    • @id10t98
      @id10t98 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some research in Africa has found that allowing animals to graze an arid, mostly bare area before a rainfall, the dung deposited by the animals as they eat and walk around and their hooves grind it into the soil, acts as a fertilizer helping grasses grow and holding more moisture in the soil over a longer period of time and creating a sustained green area. The buffalo in the USA always moved around the same way centuries ago.

  • @luisfelix7989
    @luisfelix7989 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lots of problems already aware of..
    Where are your solutions????

  • @NatureQuest2024
    @NatureQuest2024 ปีที่แล้ว

    You mean exporter at 3:26

  • @Kodakcompactdisc
    @Kodakcompactdisc ปีที่แล้ว

    Surely the largest exporters of cotton no ?

  • @liwang9361
    @liwang9361 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @JK-yq2yf
    @JK-yq2yf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Extrapolating from the content of your video, you don't know what the term "dryland farming" means. Your entire video referred to diverting lakes and rivers to irrigate farmland, which is the complete opposite of dryland farming.
    Dryland farming refers to the practice of farming with little to zero supplemental watering.
    Irrigating "dry lands" is not at all the same as "dryland farming."
    Your title is BS.

  • @grantmccoy6739
    @grantmccoy6739 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's easy to offer criticism, but hard to offer a solution.
    When you say things like "petro dollars" when talking about Saudi Arabia, and then criticize their attempts to diversify their economy and even export products, you're basically not giving them any options.
    I wonder what would happen if you just piped in salty ocean water onto the dry clay desert. Surely, the water would absorb in, the salt would stay on top and blow away and the land would eventually become moist. You could even harvest the salt to use or just dump into the ocean.
    The water being used in these arid regions isn't being wasted. It's still there. Any evaporation is going to remain in the region. Other water will go into the soil raising the water table, and organic matter will be used to enrich the arid soils. The problem is figuring out how to not over extend, how to find a good reliable source, and how to make an impact that will improve the ecology. There's no reason to think it can't be done.

  • @astemet
    @astemet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    here we go again.... There is so so much water in world unused
    Aral sea feeding pipeline was not drinking water anyways
    We only use fraction of the rainwater, most is desposited in ground
    We can always dessalinate water in future..

    • @TheNiteinjail
      @TheNiteinjail ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah ... future generations don't need an atmosphere anyway! haha

  • @ACE999
    @ACE999 ปีที่แล้ว

    To sum up => Too greedy and stupid!

  • @obes8
    @obes8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Capitalism/Colonism for you

  • @RR-us2kp
    @RR-us2kp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So people in Israel that invented technologies like drip irrigation to farm in their desert environment without wasting their precious supply of fresh water were wrong?

    • @RR-us2kp
      @RR-us2kp ปีที่แล้ว

      @AClockHead103 here's the first looser

    • @nknkannadiga9742
      @nknkannadiga9742 ปีที่แล้ว

      @AClockHead103 apartheid 🥸

    • @whousa642
      @whousa642 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @AClockHead103 Thanks Lefty for the question. The answer is no because there is no apartheid state. Only fat Arabs due to desert irrigation.

    • @RR-us2kp
      @RR-us2kp ปีที่แล้ว

      @Loky andryan most of Israel's water supply is desalinated.

    • @RR-us2kp
      @RR-us2kp ปีที่แล้ว

      @Loky andryan yes exactly. Where do you think they get the water for drip irrigation?

  • @amazingjeyakumar6439
    @amazingjeyakumar6439 ปีที่แล้ว

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