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"As an onslaught of storms soaked California with record-breaking rain last
winter, Christine Gemperle found herself crisscrossing her almond orchards in
knee-high muck boots and a slicker. She was out in the driving rain doing
exactly what many farmers were trying to prevent: opening her irrigation gates
and letting the flood rush into her orchards.
She left the gates open until the stormwater pooled three or four inches deep
in ditches between her rows of almond trees. A few days later, the water had
vanished, having seeped into the sandy soil, at which point Gemperle would open
the gates again, repeating the process.
Each time she did so, the vital aquifer deep below her farmland filled up more
and more.
“I was just able to put [the water] on [the field] and it went down, put it on
again and it went down,” she says."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
