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Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by mynameisvlad on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:56AM (#36002711)
And most of that rain is going to go into the ocean again. Or be distributed in a large area. Neither of which can really be captured in any sort of predictable and scalable manner.

You know, unless we build a massive “roof” of devices to capture all that rain. Literally covering the entire planet. At that point yeah it would dev a reasonable thing to bring up in the context of fresh water reserves falling.

So I very much stand by the point that while, sure, it happens all the time, that does nothing to actually help with the topic at hand.

Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by 1234letshaveatw on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:26AM (#36003074)
The rain can be captured by farms.
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by mynameisvlad on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:42AM (#36003240)
> in any sort of predictable and scalable manner.

How?

Rain is not predictable at the scale of a crop season. Rain is not scalable, it’s extremely localized.

Rain happens, and when it does your crops get watered, but you can’t in any way shape or form rely on that.