water appreciation thread

I just did the math. Every inch of rain that lands on Mount Fishmore equates to approximately 1,221,947 gallons of water. If you consider the entire watershed, and not just our 45 acre slice, that amount goes up to 8,765,005 gallons of water per inch of rain!

A good rule of thumb is: "If you want an accurate one-liner saying, don`t get involved in hydrodynamics".

water in the metal

water in the metal

I really like this video. I haven't finished watching the whole thing yet, and I don't yet understand what this has to do with water, but I am definitely excited for them to start the demo

Edit: Look at that guy bunny hoppin' 🤣

This guy has an entire series about building and maintaining a micro hydro power generator at his house in Colorado. The system is monitored by drone in winter to capture video of the intake and outlet areas.

This guy grows his own food in a permaculture garden. He's building a pond to collect rainfall. It's getting cold and he has to release the water from his rain barrels before the lines freeze. While releasing his stored rain water he digs into the soil to control where the water will flow during a storm

A documentary about how dams have changed the united states' landscape, prevented salmon from spawning, and destroyed american indian lands with thousands of years of tradition and cultural artifacts. And the activists who painted giant graffiti murals on dams to bring attention to what had happend

This guy used a solar panel and a 55 gallon drum on his roof to store energy and use it to power lights on his porch with a small turbine. Apparently an entire 55 gallon drum of water with 7 meters of height is only equivalent to the energy of 1-2 AA batteries 🤯



   

A dam made out of dirt from the 1920s failed after some big rain storms last year, flooding thousands of homes and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

This is why I don't want a well in my permaculture village

if you can safely pumpback effluent into the aquifer, then you could essentially create a sustainable water source, ofc, a lot of that could be contingent on your neighbors as well. water catchment is easier

Everyone get ready for Water Wars 2050

Start conserving now, build ponds, build forests, make friends with some beavers. Climate change is coming

Aliens hear some organized radio waves from over there, they come visit Earth.
The Earthians have mastered splitting the atom!  Great!  What have they done with this breakthrough?

... they use it to boil water.   And they're made of mostly water, themselves.
Uh, okay, so what do they do with the boiled water?  They use it to turn a wheel.  The wheel has magnets on it to make turning the wheel harder, and the effort pumps up a localized EM field which they use to... boil water in their homes.

Water creatures split the atom to boil water, so they could boil water remotely.  Teleboiling, if you will.

Bureau of Land Management biologists have been restoring and maintaining this creek in the Navada desert over the past 30 years and it went from being 2 feet wide to a lush green wetland spread over hundreds of feet.

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