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NoPotatoes wrote

And leave rain shadows behind them... This is how water becomes increasingly privatized.

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NoPotatoes wrote

The moisture in the air has to go somewhere. Unless it is literally going off into the ocean, the nets are likely to be starving land further inland of water, where it would have naturally ended up.

At this scale (village of 500) it is probably not a big deal. But I can imagine the US army corps of engineers scaling this type of tool to cover huge portions of land, collecting enough water to feed a city.

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kin OP wrote (edited )

I see what are you saying but this is very unlikely to happen, if the engineer corps of Us army want water they will came with a big ass drill and suck the water right out of the earth crust.

This technique was adapted to help endangered communities, and even if we scale up to larger communities I have serious doubts that this will trigger a butterfly effect. Nature is very resilient, look what we have been doing to the Amazon ecosystem, the oceans and so on..

Edit: to give more context, we have the concept of atmospheric rivers, and with my ignorance of the subject I would expect that a impact of to it would need to cover higher altitudes like Mountain range altitude, this situation you are specific referring to occurs naturally in some landscapes like the deserts in the Andes mountains

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NoPotatoes wrote

Perhaps I am being too cynical.

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kin OP wrote

Keep on, I like cynicism πŸ‘ΎπŸ‘„πŸ‘Ύ

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