[pegas1]

Before we try to bring water to a desert, we should stop turning livable places into deserts. If you take a ride on the I-20 or I-30, you will see a lot of harmful engineering and inconsiderate land use, both causing regions will lose the rain. You see, the annual average total rain is not given, it can change with the land use and rain handling. Gorchkov and Makarieva put it in good math and named one of these processes a biotic pump. Generally, we need to stop treating the rainwater as an obnoxious waste and we need to stop greedy water management practices and start sharing the water with nature.

BTW: just in case you need to know, I am not a dreamer, but I do have a good education in Hydrology. Currently, I am doing an experiment that will revive a couple of springs with very cheap and simple measures. Everything is measured and documented.

[jacobolus]

For some inspirational promotion of building local-scale water harvesting structures (swales, check dams, ponds, ...) for improving individual watersheds, I've enjoyed the YouTube videos of Oregon State horticulturalist Andrew Millison https://www.youtube.com/@amillison/videos for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXqkSh7P7Lc

[gaudystead]

That was a fascinating video to watch. Thank you for the share! :)

[triyambakam]

Are you sharing your work anywhere? Sounds really interesting