Greetings from Syria. everyone should do the same , for me I consider greening the desert is the most national work can be done, , I also plant every spot around my house and i am expanding to be on roadsides.
You're doing a fantastic job! It's so inspiring to hear of so many good people all over the globe just like you all working together on the same project; Permaculture! Greetings and peace be upon you from Australia.
Greetings to you - - sorry your country has such horror I wish that people would put as much effort into permaculture as they do in killing we all bleed the same and we are all children of mother earth - peace brother!
Imagine how rich and green Jordan could become if this was adopted nationwide. It would be the Jewel of the Middle East. I wish you every success with this world-changing venture
R.I.P. Bill Mollison. Geoff Lawton is now the barer of the flame. I have no words to describe my love and respect for a man I've never even met. He has done and is doing so much good for this world. I have been watching and learning from this man for several years now and count myself truly blessed as a result. Pleasing above all is when I can share this knowledge with others and see them implement even one facet.
+Lightning Eyes Thank you we appreciate your interest. We have already implemented some sustainable projects in Africa. We are currently designing project to be implemented throughout Africa and other third world counties.
Would like to see a current update for this site and to see if they have expanded beyond the original site area. The larger the area the more beneficial effects the whole area will receive.
Great, valuable, much needed knowledge that is lacking in the world education systems. It ought to be main part of the quorrecula in all educational institutions in the world. This knowledge should be published in the widest scale
i was amazed, mashAllah of peach, plum, apricot all growing in desert land.. .so in sha Allah we can do the same in Riyadh and other ares of KSA, in sha Allah
dear Geoff and to all the dear friends of permacolture, thank you for sharing this beautiful rich vision. Together we will green the desert, which large portions of this earth have become.
Great work Hassan!!! I love videos where people are working together to solve problems. If we could all be doing this we wouldn't have time to fight! BTW, the Wadi Rum sounds like a place I'd like to swim in!
MashaAllah, what a wonderful achievement. Indeed, to incorporate the natural patterns of design created by Allah subhanawatalla into everything in life, your intentions, then deeds will have the resultant positive effects on the environment....If only we were all doing this with our lives, who would have the inclination for doing or even saying anything destructive...? No wonder Jannah is an ETERNAL GARDEN. Verdant, abundant gardens are what the human soul honestly craves.
These clips and seminars need to be aired on Australian Free to Air Channels , especially at the moment when its so critical with the Drought situation. So the whole community and Government as well as the Farming community can be shown what can be done to help.
I was captured by the demeanor of Mr Elsetohy. He is very serene, and clearly connected to this work and the gifts the Creator provides for us. Tha k you for another vid, mr Lawton, even if I'm a few years late to it ;)
All good I would have liked to see the soil condition and how the permaculture method improved the dirt into the living soil with microorganisms fungi and bacteria thriving in Wada Sear Of course as long as you have water you will have vegetation. but was the quality of the soil improved?
Yeah, if they use animals in a certain guided way they could help enrich the soil. I wish I could learn about permaculture. It seems so amazing and interesting.
Even in this dry desert the water will fall. Not much (70mm) , but just enough to kick start. Wadi Rum is a valley, water will naturally gather there. The "trick" was to not let it go right away. Producing more run of and erosion. The best place to "store" water is in the soil, reduce evaporation, filters it and so on. With careful observation, design and implementation of features like swales, collection ponds, etc. It´s possible to slow the water and let it infiltrate into to soil. Cheers
What we need with this are different ways of farming as well. For example, urban farming, this would highly implement the world and food demand. A way to do this is farming through skyscrapers or just filling in the gaps in the city with producing trees.
+LardmanAttack Agreed. Am trying to do combine rainwater harvesting with biontensive + vertical gardening here in Mexico. Its been done on a large scale in Cuba. Obviously, Mr. Lawton has a lot to teach us.
What's the water source for this desert garden? I've recently seen some experimental agriculture using ocean water that was growing a select group of food plants, especially chosen for their tolerance of salinated water.
The water is "rain captured/stored " in the soil. Which is even more remarkable considering that an area like this can have as litle as 70mm of rainfall. Cheers
Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. . I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky. This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly. Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented. Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many TH-cam channels, as a reference. Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.
My miracle would be to see rice and fish grown there. I heard about a guy who was not too far from Wadi Rum, up north in Galilee who had the brilliant idea of feeding the multitudes with fish.
I understand this design is possible in the desert, but where is the water coming from? If it's not coming naturally through annual rainfall then is this not the opposite of permaculture? It's like growing fruit trees in Antarctica by building a large greenhouse around them. It's possible to make it work, but not sustainable without drastic intervention.
In a harsh desert environment, such as Wadi Rum, it is painfully slow to get a regreening system going without some form of supplemented irrigation. Of course, at the basis of any permaculture system, earthworks set the stage for the preservation and utilization of water. So in the desert, they start by making swales and other passive water collection systems to keep what little they get from running right off the surface. Then they plant the overstory with the plan that in 5 to 10 years, they will take their place as the main source of shade and wind breaking (protection from evaporation). Combine all of that with a mulch program that will create a sponge layer on the ground and you have a self sustaining system in 5 to 10 years, as opposed to slow regeneration using only the water that falls annually over the course of 50 to 100 years.
Threeyees makes a good point. We also have to remember Joe moisture capturing, and water de-salinization tech is getting better, cheaper, and more efficient with every year. Nevertheless, I enjoyed your analogy about growing vegetables in a greenhouse in Antarctica. It was a clever way of asking a good question and getting a great answer. I do feel smarter for interacting with you both lol.
if you notice, the oasis is in the heart of a valley the valley act to collect water, and this water will end trapped in underground streams there are forms of sustainable underground water-based irrigation around the world since ancient times only in moden days, drilling tech allowed people to dig fossil water reserves (same tech used for oil extraction) Sustainable oasis are possible in low 70mm/year raindfalls, if the collecting basin is 10x the oasis surface so this water becomes 700mm/year, stored underground and enables all year water availability
Joe, great question. No doubt in the beginning, the farm had to find ways to harvest and store rainwater. Drip irrigation is also important. I wouldn't be surprised if they also had to purchase some water too. However, over time the need for man-made irrigation lessens because of the improved soils, strategically designed swales and other systems built to slow down the movement of rainwater and store it naturally onsite.
All plants are natural fertilizer. The plant was cut and dropped into the soil, to decompose and feed the live plants nutrients. It's the natural order of how plants thrive in a forest, with no human interaction. A bush dies, or a tree falls over, and as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into the soil that the other plants feed off of.
Yeah, it looks like a moringa to me too. But it could be a lucinae. Like Phoenix fire said, all plants act as a natural fertilizer but plants like moringa and lucinae draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and add it to the soil while other plants just recycle nutrient. But the most important thing is that organic matter is continuously being added to the soil.
The swale collects water from a very large catchment by designing to the contours of the land; Likely, this swale has collected water from an area as big as, if not bigger than, the farm itself. Water is simply captured it by design rather than letting it pass through and evaporate off.
K Hayes Very interesting idea - catching rain from a larger area. Obviously they would catch from any rooftops, but maybe they had a swale that was upsloping away from the desired watering area. I kinda still think they filled it by pumping or something.
I am glad you have incorporated the Israeli drip irrigation method. I think if you would incorporate the "Back to Eden Gardening" method of using wood chips that would cover the open spaces in the garden and not only provide nutrients but also aid in evaporation and collect the dew moisture, you may have even better results.
Import huge (several tons) amounts of wood chips, in this particular place neither seems very sustainable, practical or economical. Would be the antitheses of permaculture in it´s roots. After the initial input of imported resources, like hoses, seeds, etc. The general idea is for the system work itself towards a self sustaining condition. Not be dependent of truck loads of something that comes from thousands of km´s away. Sustainability is the key word. :-) Cheers
If there is no water to begin with, then it will not work. They can tap the aquifer, but it will eventually run dry if it is not recharged. There must be rain. If a location is bone dry, it will always remain a desert.
There is a limit for everything even for a rich country! It's a matter of spending and priorities and understanding! The world is running currently on conventional farming with monoculture and sympathetic fertilizers! If you think anything more than a million or billion is unlimited in economic terms then I'm happy to report my friend you are a stupid simpleton!
Not really. This area is very dry, with only about 7 mm of rain per year. It is made up of flat valleys surrounded by rock mountains that run off into the valleys. A square kilometer is a million square meters, so each square kilometer gets a thousand cubic meters of rainwater per millimeter of rainfall. That's seven million liters of water per square kilometer in this extremely dry area. A lot of that falls on barren rock and runs off into dry soil. So the problem really isn't a lack of water. The problem is that the runoff from the hills degrades the soil instead of nourishing it, because it runs off too fast. The soil can't hold it because of the erosion channels and the lack of organic material in the soil. So as magic as all this stuff looks, it really just reshaping the land to reduce erosion (mostly by blocking erosion channels) and planting hardy plants that build the soil. The rest happens by itself.
Greetings from Syria. everyone should do the same , for me I consider greening the desert is the most national work can be done, , I also plant every spot around my house and i am expanding to be on roadsides.
Congratulations! Keep up the good work. It is great to hear of constructive things being done there. :-)
The Master ...you are doing job keep doing good. ..no matter what...peace and greatings from India
You're doing a fantastic job! It's so inspiring to hear of so many good people all over the globe just like you all working together on the same project; Permaculture! Greetings and peace be upon you from Australia.
God bless Syria
Greetings to you - - sorry your country has such horror I wish that people would put as much effort into permaculture as they do in killing we all bleed the same and we are all children of mother earth - peace brother!
Imagine how rich and green Jordan could become if this was adopted nationwide. It would be the Jewel of the Middle East. I wish you every success with this world-changing venture
R.I.P. Bill Mollison. Geoff Lawton is now the barer of the flame. I have no words to describe my love and respect for a man I've never even met. He has done and is doing so much good for this world. I have been watching and learning from this man for several years now and count myself truly blessed as a result. Pleasing above all is when I can share this knowledge with others and see them implement even one facet.
🙏
This is great as a proof of concept. We _can_ reverse the desertification process. Our planet needs a lot more of this sort of thing...
Great concept I wish I had visited when I was in the wadi a few years ago
Geoff Lawton is a spectacular man.🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This is magnificent, I wanna see this in Africa, and third world countries. This project is giving me soooo much hope.
+Lightning Eyes Thank you we appreciate your interest. We have already implemented some sustainable projects in Africa. We are currently designing project to be implemented throughout Africa and other third world counties.
+MuslimAidAus wOw, realy nice
Bill Mollison was doing this in africa in the 80s
He was a man far ahead of his time.
no doubt. he made a video documentary on some of the things he did in africa.
God bless these people Jesus will bless you and your offspring for generations to come
Beautiful. Natural vegetarian and vegan food. No animal cruelty, Food, As it was 3000 - 5000 years back. Greening of desert.
Would like to see a current update for this site and to see if they have expanded beyond the original site area. The larger the area the more beneficial effects the whole area will receive.
This guy ❤️ should be listened to by all the leaders of the world 🌍
ماشاء الله احسنتم واصلوا انتم رواد ماتفعلونه خدمة عظيمة للانسانية
I hope I see all deserts green and prosperous.
WONDERFULL . Human beings need cooperation , NOT WARS
This is mind blowing. I wish I could visit.
This is a great project guys . I am doing sort of same thing in Afghanistan . Wish you guys more energy and power to keep making our planet greener
Great, valuable, much needed knowledge that is lacking in the world education systems.
It ought to be main part of the quorrecula in all educational institutions in the world. This knowledge should be published in the widest scale
wow! lovely project! I bet bees would be a great idea to add there!
This is one of the most inspirational and educational videos. Thank you.
i was amazed, mashAllah of peach, plum, apricot all growing in desert land.. .so in sha Allah we can do the same in Riyadh and other ares of KSA, in sha Allah
مستحيل يسوونها ال سعود
dear Geoff and to all the dear friends of permacolture, thank you for sharing this beautiful rich vision. Together we will green the desert, which large portions of this earth have become.
God Bless you sir. Absolutely wonderful. You are literally making the world a better place!
This video made my day. Fantastic. I would love to see Geoff draw it all out on a whiteboard. I'd love to see what the design was
+About The Soil I am going in cha ALLAH to jordan this year just to learn that with him!!
we need these kind of people in Pakistan (especially Karachi )
Great work Hassan!!! I love videos where people are working together to solve problems. If we could all be doing this we wouldn't have time to fight! BTW, the Wadi Rum sounds like a place I'd like to swim in!
+FRWHELAN Yes, no WMD's here. Just great people doing great work!
Simply amazing. Permaculture is one of the best things that has ever existed.
I love that people are working so well together.
The American West needs this!!
MashaAllah, what a wonderful achievement. Indeed, to incorporate the natural patterns of design created by Allah subhanawatalla into everything in life, your intentions, then deeds will have the resultant positive effects on the environment....If only we were all doing this with our lives, who would have the inclination for doing or even saying anything destructive...?
No wonder Jannah is an ETERNAL GARDEN. Verdant, abundant gardens are what the human soul honestly craves.
+Ruby K If only we were all doing this...I will in cha ALLAH
Learn, practice, enjoy then transmit the joy :). it can be done in a balcony you know!!
These clips and seminars need to be aired on Australian Free to Air Channels , especially at the moment when its so critical with the Drought situation. So the whole community and Government as well as the Farming community can be shown what can be done to help.
More videos on the specifics of this project would be very instructive and inspirational .
Allah y barik !
Greenting from caatinga in Brasil, l AM brasilien, l love plants, threes, hir is very dry, but l try to plants,
oh my god. Bill molon has passed away. this brings tears to me
I was captured by the demeanor of Mr Elsetohy. He is very serene, and clearly connected to this work and the gifts the Creator provides for us.
Tha k you for another vid, mr Lawton, even if I'm a few years late to it ;)
Great guys! I hope my country learns from you..
This was 5 years ago, who has more recent videos about this project?
Just subscribed! Wow, I live offgrid in the desert and this inspired me to dig a ditch by my garden.
All good I would have liked to see the soil condition and how the permaculture method improved the dirt into the living soil with microorganisms fungi and bacteria thriving in Wada Sear Of course as long as you have water you will have vegetation. but was the quality of the soil improved?
Thank You!!! You are doing great job!
respect
Maa-syaa Allah
Yeah, if they use animals in a certain guided way they could help enrich the soil. I wish I could learn about permaculture. It seems so amazing and interesting.
More videos on greening the desert please!! Im obsessed
Looks great, keep it on!
Eso es maravilloso !!!
كم نتمنى تجربة مماثله في سوريا
thanks brother
Beautiful garden
I loved this!
Where did u get water there? In the center of dry desert... how did you get?
Even in this dry desert the water will fall. Not much (70mm) , but just enough to kick start. Wadi Rum is a valley, water will naturally gather there.
The "trick" was to not let it go right away. Producing more run of and erosion. The best place to "store" water is in the soil, reduce evaporation, filters it and so on.
With careful observation, design and implementation of features like swales, collection ponds, etc. It´s possible to slow the water and let it infiltrate into to soil.
Cheers
fantastic video GREAT work.
What we need with this are different ways of farming as well. For example, urban farming, this would highly implement the world and food demand. A way to do this is farming through skyscrapers or just filling in the gaps in the city with producing trees.
+LardmanAttack Agreed. Am trying to do combine rainwater harvesting with biontensive + vertical gardening here in Mexico. Its been done on a large scale in Cuba. Obviously, Mr. Lawton has a lot to teach us.
Only way to go
Help us creating green desert Thar in sind pakistan
looks good
this is amazing
And then if we grow all over the place. Is it possible for Moore rain
So is it called Wadi rum or my favorite place wadia?
great work
Where is the water coming from and how is the water being spread to the crops?
Just amazing
love it!
What's the water source for this desert garden? I've recently seen some experimental agriculture using ocean water that was growing a select group of food plants, especially chosen for their tolerance of salinated water.
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
Impressive, how much water is consumed for irrigation year round ? and were is it coming from ? pumped from underground or rain captured/stored
The water is "rain captured/stored
" in the soil. Which is even more remarkable considering that an area like this can have as litle as 70mm of rainfall.
Cheers
How can i get intouch with you pls...great ideas...i wanna imply it in the desert of the south of tunisia and i need help..
Salaam, how can I get in touch with the people on the ground in Jordan? No one is replying to the emails.
Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. .
I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky.
This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly.
Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented.
Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many TH-cam channels, as a reference.
Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.
Where do they get water for irrigation??
Please give GPS coordinates of this place in Australia.
So we can glipmse its current status on Google Earth
This should be the standard. A dry, lifeless desert should become the oddity.
Respected sir,
I wanted to make it in oman, also wanted to grow onion & potatoes
Can you please help me out or talk to me?
Now imagine that government supports this kind of projects. Sandy Sahara would be a thing of the past.
Bellesa amo la naturaleza
Did you start with a pond or a swale.???
My miracle would be to see rice and fish grown there. I heard about a guy who was not too far from Wadi Rum, up north in Galilee who had the brilliant idea of feeding the multitudes with fish.
It is and can be done in these extremely arid climates. Tie in "Aquaponics" with Permaculture.
Doesn't all the water come from an aquifer that is running out fast? What happens then?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
from where comes the Water?
As salam 'aleikoum,
That's a great Projet!
We really want to reproduce that in Algerian's desert, can you share us plans for this permaculture design?
kadesh hehe
This is the same Oasis on Geoff Lawton web site: www.geofflawton.com/fe/62176-desert-oasis. it show some of the design.
+kadesh hehe where are you in Algeria bro?
+M.N HAMIDI No, I am in the U.S.. Follow the above link and clink on "From Desert to Oasis in 4 Years"
+M.N HAMIDI No, I am in the U.S.. Follow the above link and clink on "From Desert to Oasis in 4 Years"
+Barb H Thank you
How low would it take us mankind to turn the Sahara green and what would it do to earths climate system?
The plant that is cut back and added to the soil for fertiliser, what is that? Moringa?
+GlassIsFullKindaGal i forget the name but it's a type of legume tree, not moringa
acacia or leucaena. Both work well in dry/hot environments
Where is all this water from?
How is this sustainable if you have to truck in organic material and irrigate the plants. Where is this water coming from?
I understand this design is possible in the desert, but where is the water coming from? If it's not coming naturally through annual rainfall then is this not the opposite of permaculture? It's like growing fruit trees in Antarctica by building a large greenhouse around them. It's possible to make it work, but not sustainable without drastic intervention.
In a harsh desert environment, such as Wadi Rum, it is painfully slow to get a regreening system going without some form of supplemented irrigation. Of course, at the basis of any permaculture system, earthworks set the stage for the preservation and utilization of water. So in the desert, they start by making swales and other passive water collection systems to keep what little they get from running right off the surface. Then they plant the overstory with the plan that in 5 to 10 years, they will take their place as the main source of shade and wind breaking (protection from evaporation). Combine all of that with a mulch program that will create a sponge layer on the ground and you have a self sustaining system in 5 to 10 years, as opposed to slow regeneration using only the water that falls annually over the course of 50 to 100 years.
Threeyees makes a good point. We also have to remember Joe moisture capturing, and water de-salinization tech is getting better, cheaper, and more efficient with every year. Nevertheless, I enjoyed your analogy about growing vegetables in a greenhouse in Antarctica. It was a clever way of asking a good question and getting a great answer. I do feel smarter for interacting with you both lol.
if you notice, the oasis is in the heart of a valley
the valley act to collect water, and this water will end trapped in underground streams
there are forms of sustainable underground water-based irrigation around the world since ancient times
only in moden days, drilling tech allowed people to dig fossil water reserves (same tech used for oil extraction)
Sustainable oasis are possible in low 70mm/year raindfalls, if the collecting basin is 10x the oasis surface
so this water becomes 700mm/year, stored underground and enables all year water availability
Joe, great question. No doubt in the beginning, the farm had to find ways to harvest and store rainwater. Drip irrigation is also important. I wouldn't be surprised if they also had to purchase some water too. However, over time the need for man-made irrigation lessens because of the improved soils, strategically designed swales and other systems built to slow down the movement of rainwater and store it naturally onsite.
can you make an update?
Best buds
Where is the water coming from?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
how can I turn off the music in the video, and still listen to the people ?
Really ?
jep
هل من محسن يترجم لتعم الفائدة
That was the start of Farmers Union when I design it thank you all for helping me love you all remember to feed the hungry
this is amazing!
Wat plant wat that that was a natural fertiliser ?..please....looked like a Moringa...
All plants are natural fertilizer. The plant was cut and dropped into the soil, to decompose and feed the live plants nutrients. It's the natural order of how plants thrive in a forest, with no human interaction. A bush dies, or a tree falls over, and as it decomposes, it releases nutrients into the soil that the other plants feed off of.
Yeah, it looks like a moringa to me too. But it could be a lucinae. Like Phoenix fire said, all plants act as a natural fertilizer but plants like moringa and lucinae draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and add it to the soil while other plants just recycle nutrient. But the most important thing is that organic matter is continuously being added to the soil.
+Joshua Blackmon. That's true. I didn't think about that when I posted. Thank you!
Where does thé water Come from?
3:00 or so --> 70mm average annual rainfall. But 'wadi' means river valley, so there's some collection into the permaculture area.
I want to do this in the American South West.
Where did the water in the swale come from? You get 17 mm a year. Did you just get your yearly rainfall?
The swale collects water from a very large catchment by designing to the contours of the land; Likely, this swale has collected water from an area as big as, if not bigger than, the farm itself. Water is simply captured it by design rather than letting it pass through and evaporate off.
K Hayes Very interesting idea - catching rain from a larger area. Obviously they would catch from any rooftops, but maybe they had a swale that was upsloping away from the desired watering area. I kinda still think they filled it by pumping or something.
I think they also have a tiny spring in the moutain near the area, but most of their water is by optimising each drop of water in the land...
I think this sort of system would work really well with aquaponics, it would be nice to see that tried out in an environment like this.
I am glad you have incorporated the Israeli drip irrigation method. I think if you would incorporate the "Back to Eden Gardening" method of using wood chips that would cover the open spaces in the garden and not only provide nutrients but also aid in evaporation and collect the dew moisture, you may have even better results.
+Geyrald Piinmi I think the IDI was stolen with among other things.
stolen? lol
Import huge (several tons) amounts of wood chips, in this particular place neither seems very sustainable, practical or economical. Would be the antitheses of permaculture in it´s roots.
After the initial input of imported resources, like hoses, seeds, etc. The general idea is for the system work itself towards a self sustaining condition.
Not be dependent of truck loads of something that comes from thousands of km´s away. Sustainability is the key word. :-)
Cheers
what about water ?
Why don't Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and UEA green their deserts?? They have unlimited money.
Muhammad Nabil Berri I think it's all about control. Control food, control people.
They spend it all on palaces, high-living, and bombs to throw at Israel.
If there is no water to begin with, then it will not work. They can tap the aquifer, but it will eventually run dry if it is not recharged. There must be rain. If a location is bone dry, it will always remain a desert.
There is a limit for everything even for a rich country!
It's a matter of spending and priorities and understanding!
The world is running currently on conventional farming with monoculture and sympathetic fertilizers!
If you think anything more than a million or billion is unlimited in economic terms then I'm happy to report my friend you are a stupid simpleton!
Not really. This area is very dry, with only about 7 mm of rain per year. It is made up of flat valleys surrounded by rock mountains that run off into the valleys.
A square kilometer is a million square meters, so each square kilometer gets a thousand cubic meters of rainwater per millimeter of rainfall. That's seven million liters of water per square kilometer in this extremely dry area. A lot of that falls on barren rock and runs off into dry soil.
So the problem really isn't a lack of water. The problem is that the runoff from the hills degrades the soil instead of nourishing it, because it runs off too fast. The soil can't hold it because of the erosion channels and the lack of organic material in the soil.
So as magic as all this stuff looks, it really just reshaping the land to reduce erosion (mostly by blocking erosion channels) and planting hardy plants that build the soil. The rest happens by itself.
Bless!
Thank you for listening thank you for let me design it for you all