The earth is redistributing its water.

Mankind has pursued energy to fuel civilization in such a way that they have failed to see the systems they effect. The search for combustible gasses that has been proposed to ‘replace’ diminishing oil does more damage than most seem to know.

Such gasses are in the aquifers of this planet. As is the ocean, these aquifers are part of our atmosphere (which extends even into the rock itself to at least the mantel). Aquifers need those gasses to generate the atmosphere we breathe.

Being a closed cycle system the Earth is redistributing its water to maintain atmosphere.

And Mankind is right in the way.

Farming areas may require ‘bio-halfdomes’ that can rise when needed and protect crops from sudden influx of water or storm. You can build such for sporting events, why not a ‘dressed down’ version for farms? For the future of mankind we should not save just the farmer, with our technology. The food will be needed by many. Save it also that many will be saved (and the farmer not become destitute). One could even place about the farm in several places, cisterns to capture a portion of this wealth of water. Holding it until a time when the rains come not. In this way comes a better tune with the cycles of the Earth. Or one could ‘trickle charge’ the aquifer from these cisterns that the water comes back clean of our pollutions.

When mankind was small we could move to another place to please ‘nature’. It is undeniable that we no longer have this luxury for we have become legion where once we were but scattered tribes. It just might be time to build our cities like colonies instead of jungles of concrete. Concrete grows no corn.

Interesting ideas. Concrete can't be good for anything natural

concrete stores a lot of heat to, which could be part of the problem with warming...

Our grounds are sodden, the aquifers bulging, dams full, rivers and creeks flushed clean, rainwater tanks full....and our farmers lost 95% of their produce, be it beef, sheep or food, not just in my state but the whole east coast of Australia...and we are paying for it now...3 times the prices of a year ago!...and not all of it is in oil prices being higher!

...and I know without a shadow of a doubt that very soon, again, we will be looking to the heavens for that one solitary rain cloud....to soften the parched land.


I don't understand, with all the collected data, and knowledge, we are capable of learning, why we still continue monoculture...why we still try to beat the odds with our farming techniques.

Why humans have a need for a number of houses, when they can only physically live in one...and why people don't take some responsibility for their own food production...

I have watched over 20 years, the local government here, make strange policies, then recind them a few years later...one is grey water..shower, sink and washing machine water...it was illegal for a time to use this water on your non-edible gardens...even on your lawn...and then in a few dry years...suddenly it became mandatory to have a 5000 gallon rainwater catchment tank attached to your house, and to use grey water for non-edible plant watering.

An amazing young man has created an incredible blackwater filter...(toilet effluent/water) that has consistently produced cleaner water that is higher in quality than our local government supplied drinking water!!!...I wonder how long until blackwater filtration systems become mandatory...

We have lost the mindset of self reliance...no longer do we provide first and foremost for our own populace...in this region we are renowned as being the fruit and vege bowl of the country as we can grow all year round...the prime produce goes overseas...the second grade is what we locals are offerred..

We eat your oranges!...navel oranges are produced in the US...whereas we had a fantastic citrus region in the southern states, that ended up plowing in their produce, and burning their trees, after years of not being able to compete in the marketplace.


We've forgotten how to provide for our own, in a sustainable way...I am not on town water...I have a 5000 gallon rainwater tank...so every drop is a conscious decision...we have to be accountable for our water consumption, or it will be gone....I don't see why this mindset does not apply to every human...irrespective of where their water comes from.

I spend my days producing food, preparing beds, planting edible trees...taking advantage of the exceptional rains we had over summer...and now they exist through the water table, and grey water, and need to learn to acclimatise ready for a few drier seasons.

we don't need to worry about water availability. There are plenty of Corporatist entrepreneurs who will be eager to sell it to us.

There was a national data collection survey done here in Australia a few years ago, during the droughts, where aerial meaurements were taken of private dam sites, roof sizes, and private catchment areas..


...with full intent of one day regulating and having to pay per square metre of what water you caught on your own private land!


It didn't go down so well!

There have been major efforts to privatize water right in South America to where it even became illegal to collect rainwater from your own roof. I don't remeber which country was the most egregious, but it was tried in a number of them