How (and why) to FIND YOUR WATERSHED

[@blahpunk1]

I love your setup with the real sand in the box and then the overhead projection. That's nifty!

[@butterflyj685]

You are one of my favorite Permaculture teachers. Many others have tried to explain this and it was very dry and boring. I am a visual learner and have never seen or heard anyone explain the connection between ridges, ridge lines & watershed as clear and simple as you have. Thank you!!!

[@monicacruz4407]

So clear, so simple. Good teaching, thank you 🙏

[@ale.g.x.667]

Very cool dude🤘. "Know the land you live on"

[@WB-zr7pq]

I assume nestle company related people are the only ones hitting the dislike button on something like this. Cant imagine hating understanding water, and planning properly vs being a victim of floods and droughts.

[@Autobotsunited]

Exactly.

[@bro4539]

don't waste your time worrying about people who don't like what you like, bro, and super duper don't try to read their minds and assume they're bad or stupid for not liking what you like. Maybe they're just trying to tune the algorithm to their tastes.

[@carmenortiz5294]

@@bro4539 Or maybe they want to sabotage a channel because they don't like what the owner is saying. Tune the algorithm to their tastes? You do that by VOTING FOR the channel, duh! Plus people have the right to used their own time how ever they want.

[@BarneyGumbl3]

​@@carmenortiz5294 Dislikes don't sabotage a channel unless they majorly overwhelm likes, at the end of the day as long as the ratio is positive it is all engagement and is good for the channel

[@carmenortiz5294]

@@BarneyGumbl3 Why would I be sabotaging a channel, if as you claim the majority like it? I am stating facts, not trying to be some angelic being protecting NONSENSE. Try using your brain. It's not a ration being positive, it's about reality and saying what you think. If the person doesn't like being criticised, they should be posting cute animals videos.

[@bonniehatcher8198]

Thank you for sharing such a wealth of knowledge. I just pray...really pray that we all will see with our eyes and understand with our hearts and walk it out in application. Such safety in knowledge! It is really called Wisdom! Thank you.

[@SeanWilliamGeorgeBuc]

Your videos are taking my DnD land and village design to the next level 🤙

[@filippartyka1816]

Andrew thanks for your work. You can explein really complex stuff in a very streight and down to earth way. Would be great to see You dissecting some broad land designs.

[@marciapozo137]

He aprendido mucho a través de tus vídeos, infinitas gracias, saludos desde Chile

[@shaquille.oatmeal8968]

Amazing video sir. You made me intrested in permaculture. I saw your video and then started research in the topic. When I grow up , I will promote and apply permaculture. Great work . All the best for future

[@mbasalalendle1878]

The best videos on this topic of water catchment I’ve ever watched your sandbox technology is life changing stuff

[@RealityReset365]

thank you for this video! I'm looking at desert property due to land cost but have been looking at permaculture restorative agriculture. after I buy it will be putting this into practice to start with the water on the land.

[@MiriamisticWay]

amazing

[@j.kaimori3848]

One consideration is effectively hugalculture (Hill farming), use dead trees underground to act as a water sponge so you can retain water that does land. You can also try planting native plants in areas you might crop a year or two later to increase the soil biomass.

[@stevebreedlove9760]

Been really digging the series. Hopefully we have a chance to work with you for the Fire Ecology Restoration Project!

[@higherrating2195]

I would love to volunteer if help is needed.

[@fahimahmedbhuiyan2252]

Your visual demonstration was just mind blowing ❤ It really helped me to understand the concept of watershed modeling intuitively. Keep going! We want more videos like this!

[@UpperCutZX10]

Not sure where the greater genius lies, within this guy, Andrew Millison, or the ppl who saw the overall benefit in providing him with any tools he needs.

[@SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

Thanks Andrew for sharing. Finding a watershed on our farm is quite difficult but I will keep looking. Greetings from LooseNatural farm in Andalusia

[@VAspeed3]

Boundaries between watersheds are often traced by old roads (say, more then 100 years old, depending on where you are) because they wanted to minimize the the expense of building bridges.

[@capsfederation3154]

i dont know why you appeared in my feed but im still pretty thankful for it! maybe in the distant future ill build the best city for a commune or ill utilize this in building minecraft maps idk. its a random and informative video

[@padnomnidprenon9672]

Thank you so much Andrew. Your work and education about water designs means so much to me You make it affordable

[@colindevane]

Loving this new toy!!!! Your vids are so helpful man, thank you, sharing em w my students

[@liamdavis5431]

Love the Paul Izak background music

[@DayDreamsofGreenDesign]

Professor Millison, thank you so much for your videos! I have learned so much from them and they have absolutely given me hope that we can redeem the harm we've done. With everything going on with the Colorado River I have found myself wondering if there are any projects utilizing these principles that could be applied to revitalizing the health of the system? It seems like such an obvious thing that by altering landscapes and disrupting natural water cycles we also need to accept responsibility to ensure that all water entering human shaped land is used efficiently and returned to natural systems in a productive way. Keep up the great work!!

[@amillison]

Jennifer, Have you watched my "India's Water Revolution" series? Pretty great large scale examples there: kzbin.info/aero/PLNdMkGYdEqOCgePyiAyBT0sh7zlr7xhz3

[@DayDreamsofGreenDesign]

@@amillison I have, and was blown away! I think the question I really need to ask, and am afraid to... How far away are we actually from rebuilding these water systems? Are some of our storm water drainage systems designed in a way to help?

[@amillison]

@@DayDreamsofGreenDesign It all depends on where you are and how development has been doe there. Each watershed has its own degree of health and needs to be assessed from top to bottom.

[@georgebariamis2002]

Loved your video, especially the use of Jenga pieces, very useful ;)

[@MathraMania]

This video indirectly taught me about my country Bangladesh, it's a giant delta, and the southern regions are at high risk of being completely submerged (within a few decades maybe?). Climate change being one cause, and perhaps unwise urban development like what you mentioned here is also another.

[@shaanz2.087]

Thank you, mister Andrew for your valuable education 🙏

[@SlumpdWiz]

Crazy how this all relates to what happen in Glennwood Springs this year.

[@pongop]

This is really cool and helpful! It made me recall that years ago I attended a workshop on Bioregionalism at a symposium. For introductions, we named the watersheds we lived in, and I didn't know mine. Now I live in a different place, and just now I'm thinking that I should figure out my current watershed. I've liked the idea of bioregionalism since then, and more lately have come to appreciate permaculture and watersheds. Your videos help me see things in a different way. Thank you!

[@ion6069]

Amazing video quality! Its very enjoyable to watch

[@clairegordon8475]

Love this education!

[@alanmcrae8594]

An excellent presentation on understanding your land's watershed. QUESTION: in order to create a 3D contour model of one's land, it is necessary to fairly precisely survey the property at low cost. Using a drone with LIDAR & GPS technology seems like a fast, practical way to do a detailed survey. Is there an open source terrain mapping system that will do this? (Is OpenMMS ready for this type of contour mapping survey?)

[@amillison]

Alan, I don't know the tech details of drone surveys, but I know that they are common now and the cost has gone way down.

[@alanmcrae8594]

@@amillison Thanks for your reply. My request for an approximate quote to survey a 5 acre parcel was never answered by a service provider. I got the impression that "if you have to ask, you can't afford it." In any case, 21st century homesteading is a happening thing in the US, and some are starting out in an RV or tiny house and with a tiny budget as well. IT would be great if a survey was super affordable, and even better if open source surveying hardware & software was an inexpensive option. As I'm an IT tech, we're planning to implement an AR Sandbox to study our complex 5 acre parcel, but I would also contemplate getting some techs together in our future community to build an open source mapping drone together that could be used for all sorts of local mapping projects. I was hoping that with your extensive professional knowledge of Permaculture that you might also know about the latest developments in terrain mapping technologies.

[@amillison]

@@alanmcrae8594 I have not had to rely on drone mapping in Oregon, because the entire state has been flown over with lidar and so detailed topo maps for everywhere are readily available for free online. So a lot depends on location, and I'd say that goes for the availability of drone pilots with lidar capabilities as well. Here's a video made by one of my former students detailing their process for doing drone contours: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIioi4iObNh1nM0

[@alanmcrae8594]

@@amillison Thank you Sir! That video is an excellent introduction to creating topographical maps from drone images. I can see that some further refinement is necessary to get detailed contour maps suitable for both water flow planning and an accurate AR Sandbox model, but the video is definitely a good place to start one's learning curve. (Clearly map making open source software is progressing in capability very nicely, and even the open source hardware is maturing into something that can be more widely usable. The next wave of 21st century homesteaders should definitely start their planning with a detailed survey of their property.)

[@alanmcrae8594]

Just saw this LiDAR review, and while it is not open source, it is inexpensive and the results look really impressive. LiDAR allows the contour mapping to remove most of the trees and see right to ground level, which is what I'd want to plan watershed improvements. The review is at: Drone LiDAR REVIEW | LiAirV | DJI LiVOX kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaStaYWXobR1is0. Hope it helps other newbies to get fired up about LiDAR contour mapping of their property.

[@JamesWillmus]

At 5:00 that's exactly what happened to Rapid City South Dakota. The city (then about 40,000 people) was located right at the mouth of a 20ft wide creek flowing out of the Black Hills. Logging activity in the area for decades prior and fires had stripped away much of the forest canopy and a growing suburban population up the creek had diverted and constricted the creek to make way for roads and homes. When all that rain fell in a storm of the century, there was no place for the water to go except down the creek. The flood killed dozens of people and destroyed a good chunk of the town which was build on the flood-plains outside the mouth of the canyon. Since then there have been several dams built to slow down water surges, much of the forest has been allowed to regrow, and no one can build a residential structure within about 500 yards of the creek on either side, allowing for a wide flood channel that has parks and a few businesses.

[@Stephen_Strange]

Worth a TED talk.

[@raizalali4678]

Great Video...Very short and simple..

[@karendoupe1830]

Wow this was great. Love the visuals.

[@shawnp8628]

Add that to the list of things I understand now. Thanks my man. 🤙

[@RolfStones]

I live in a small city in the east of the Netherlands, it is called Hengelo, which is derived from the Dutch words Eng and Loo, meaning open place in the woods where streams come together. There are 16 streams alltogether. It is surrounded by gently sloped glacial morraines to the south, east and West. Difference in height is 20-60 meters. Where my city is, used to be swampy terrain dotted with dry spots with shallow stream valleys before the terrain was substantially drained and altered by humans. The main drainage is south to north before turning west a bit to the north of the city. Interestingly enough, the closest river doesn't run through this basin, but on top of a ridge running south to north, just 15 km east from my city. It later turns to the west. The slopes of the morraines are topped by deep layers of sand, blown there in the last glacial period. Restricting agriculture to stream valleys and drained swamps. The sandy areas are now wooded areas with lots of cycling and walking paths and restricted acces to cars. A large early 20th century canal runs through my city that functions partly as drainage. This canal knows two locks, not to surprisingly one of them is close by. Just a small distance up slope south of the city is a system of three connected large ponds with the upper pond having a more shallow bottom to accomodate varied habitat for the different ponds. It functions as the main system to catch run off. Most streams in the urban area have been put in culverts underground. Where possible we are bringing them back to the surface, creating more space to catch runoff. There is a large runoff ditch running on the southern edge of the city from east to west towards the canal. The city knows several former clay pits, all now urban ponds, as well as a former sand quarry on the east of the city that is now a pond in a small wooded area.

[@jenniferspring8741]

Wow, great description! Thanks for the inspiration.

[@amillison]

fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[@susanbender4725]

Thank you for the education

[@isaias-b]

Again such a great post! Absolutely in love with the visuals 🥰 Keep it up, looking forward for the next snippet. Kind Regards Isaias

[@delh1415]

Just wanted to say, your content is amazing! Great visual aids, clear explanations . Love your work!👍🏼☺️

[@iceleafofalba]

Simple Ahupu'a beautiful logic

[@michaelvonfeldt9629]

I would like to see how you make this presentation with the lights and sand. Looks great

[@daisytorres1992]

Hello Andrew, thank you so much for the great videos. I was wondering if I could translate this video to Spanish. I think it would be a great resource for an organization here in Chihuahua city protecting the mountains from the urbanization machine.

[@amillison]

definitely! Email me at [e-mail] and we can discuss further. You can make an SRT file that I can easily upload to this KZbin video.

[@timothylewis90]

Awesome video and information! Thank you!

[@climatesolutions649]

Please keep these up. Reminds me of older science videos ❤️

[@alexfreeman101]

Thank you!

[@PepijnHazelhof]

Good information and visualisation

[@sliceofhappiness9924]

great!

[@cesarmagdaleno6009]

Love your work and your teachings. Will you ever revisit some of the desert sites you helped implement these techniques?

[@FrankRitterStahl]

Please !!! write subtitles in Spanish. We are many Spanish speaking followers and their programs are very good. A hug from Austrál Way, Patagonia, Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@amillison]

Ha! I just added Spanish subtitles right now :-)

[@FrankRitterStahl]

@@amillison muchas gracias amigo !!! Your channel is very good, which is very helpful for me to understand my field. Thanks from Puerto Montt, Chile

[@CITYBORNDESERTBRED]

🙌🏾

[@lizstokes9091]

I really appreciate the way you explain things! I'm preparing for a move to 100 acres and during my research I'm finding such vague information, they may as well be meteorologists LOL chance of sun, chance of rain...ya, but I could have told you that. I'm glad I found this channel, your explanations are simple yet profound! Thank you. Can I pay to fly you to North Bay, Ontario and have you help me assess some land? LOL I'm finding permaculture groups but they're very cult like, you have to offer your first born if you share any of their secrets LOL kidding, but it hasn't been an easy group to penetrate is my point.

[@amillison]

Thanks Liz. I'm trying to just get the information out so all can benefit with information accessible to a wider audience. Glad you are enjoying :-)

[@davedaddy101]

I really like your channel a lot

[@miaokuancha2447]

Watersheds are such a model for interdependence.

[@seanthedevlin]

"If you want to know where you are on the planet--on mother nature's map--then you need to identify your watershed."

[@mylink.orb17]

Liked & Subscribed!

[@amillison]

Welcome aboard!! Good to have you with us! I hope you enjoy my other content. :)

[@roja7426]

The rice farmers of Guyana depend on rain to grow their crops. However, there are not educated about watersheds. Yes, there are lakes that water streams into canals but in the dry season it gets salty and would damage the rice crop. I wish somehow someone can teach the Guyanese rice farmers about watersheds. However, the way the backlands are designed doesn’t allow space for ponds. They only have a long canals that connects to lakes. Is there an organization who can help the rice farmers of Guyana with this kind of knowledge?

[@quintinlarson9499]

Nice effects

[@alphonsobutlakiv789]

Any examples of how dam and canals have altered the water shed maps? I see the Eire Canal as a big one

[@alphonsobutlakiv789]

I know they're not natural, but water is water, and I don't see nature filling them in any time soon

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Can you do something for the Indigenous people of this continent who have been locked onto desert areas? And please find a way to help them _for free_ to heal the land that we destroyed. Thanks. 🙏💚🌱

[@rockandfound]

How do I find one in the desert. I live in southern Az is it the same principle and just have to dig deeper?

[@amillison]

The entire world is broken up into watershed basins. It's very easy to identify these basins in Arizona, as there is dramatic topography without a lot of trees obscuring the pattern.

[@rockandfound]

@@amillison hey thanks for the information, I’m going to do more research on dessert watersheds near me.

[@Tennababy]

With this summer's recent drouts across Europe wouldn't permaculture such as water collection on hillsides etc be able to mitigate a lot of the current/future issues?

[@tokarukora7272]

This might be a naive question, but: Isn't that taught any more in school for about 11 year olds? They did for sure teach that when I was a kid in Europe. For me that was always obvious and I somehow assumed that it was obvious for everybody. That does not mean that this video was redundant though, I absolutley like how you visualized it with the animated water, it is great!

[@somdeepkundu2506]

Fractrals ❤️

[@dodopson3211]

I live in the netherlands, why am I watching this?

[@kevingeorge1539]

This water shed box u have there,do u buy that somewhere or Is this info on a map?

[@BarbellMethod]

❤❤❤

[@tobiasessiger615]

Impressive

[@mxtomituck]

What is this sandbox tool called? Are there virtual versions of it out there? I wanna play with it :(

[@iwonaolszewska-szmurlo5267]

How can i find a watershed when a ground is almost flat. No mountains, hills and streams nearby. 🤔

[@joeplukken1187]

I wish this guy wouldv'e given topography to me

[@andraslibal]

A city can slow the flow of water but it has to be designed deliberately in such a way to do so.

[@rexrodecolt]

Woah what did I just watch. 👍

[@youretheai7586]

"Same as it ever was"

[@ZO6Driver2]

What if the landscape is made up of fields of grass/straw/hay? Better than nothing but not as good as trees because their reach and catchment of dew and mist?

[@eriks8382]

3:00 I think you meant to say water

[@doet707]

What kind of wizardry is this? Did merlin give you this technology? 😳

[@bobbydelcavallo7181]

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳💖💖💖💖💖🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗👍👍👍👍👍

[@shweet7891]

Just get to the point and tell them about the truth... ground water/primary water that's what youre actually trying to convey...

[@gsjfoepgKftvtDisjtu]

I actually allowed myself to believe this would give me useful info. Why would I do that?

[@dailydoseofrandomvideos5482]

Go outside and do a drone view with explanations. Come on.

[@Imber_Pluma]

The Waffle House Has Found Its New Host

[@kalvinreichelt8140]

Is this video sponsored by Dave's Killer Bread? Haha.

[@amillison]

I wish! I love that stuff.

[@hoboeyjobi7020]

u ruined Jenga 😥😥😥

[@beretgascon]

Meh. One of those downvotes is me.

[@thisiscait]

I don't know why I'm here, but I'm happy I can now find my watershed. I also live five minutes from Sydney harbour, so it was a bit hard to miss!

[@chrstfer2452]

That identification of these as fractals, "infinitely" subdivisible, just changed my idea of water movement. Holycrap

[@hukeaz]

I just found your channel and I'm obsessed! I'm currently in my 2nd year of college hoping to get into hydrology or environmental engineering, your videos are keeping me excited to work in the field

[@liamfrost2608]

My favorite channel on youtube and my careeer inspiration. Studying plant and soil science right now. Your information is so valuable to me.

[@amillison]

Thanks Liam and glad you are getting a lot out of it :-)

[@doveandiamond]

Nice! Thank you!! Very helpful!

[@jfvega1]

Very informative. This particular video is very useful. Using it for my student's study about hydrosphere studies.

[@Knight805]

I would like to play with that sand table. What's the official name for it?

[@amillison]

Augmented Reality Sandbox

[@graniteiii]

Informative vid. However, as a PG working in the consulting industry, there is no preplanning or concerns for watersheds in regards to urban and rural land uses.

[@senglomein5766]

Im gunna see how many times I can bring up "Watershed" during conversation, with some genuine relevance, like pointing to watershed as the underlying issue for most everything. "That flooding in your basement Jim, gotta be the watershed. Architects ignoring the watershed again." "Kids, now dont be out too late, and stay clear of that watershed! Did I ever tell you kids the time, that watershed..."

[@amillison]

That's pretty much how I talk :-)

[@oui-nonmaybe2127]

Fantastic everything. 👌👍

[@puppetmaster3791]

First of all we live on earth

[@afieds6845]

Interesting

[@zskaf4994]

Thanks 🙂

[@manudive3093]

Magnifico como todos tus vídeos. Gracias por compartir.

[@AnotherDuck]

I was recently walking through the neighbourhood (Snösätra, Stockholm, Sweden) I grew up in. Or rather, the "back" of it. It doesn't seem like such a big area, but it collects a good amount of water. It's not flowing very fast, and since it's in Sweden so it rains quite a bit while not being particularly hot, so it makes sense that it doesn't take that much water to saturate the area (compared to many other similarly sized areas). At this time (a warm winter, frequently above 0°C) it's semi-flooded. I also just found out it's been designated as a wetland nature reserve area (Rågsved Naturreservat) a few years back. I've always liked growing up in a suburb of a major city while also having nature (even if it's not that wild) so close by. It's like having, maybe not the best of two worlds, but a good part of both.

[@o00oZu1o00o]

Your town design is amazing. The design for the suburbs, I don't like it that much. Anyway, you have great understanding of slope and water, and your sandbox tool is super useful. I think you' could be the right person to model the Cahokia mound and some of the other mounds, and show us how it behaves with rain pouring down on it. These ancient designs obviously have a lot to them, so maybe this could lead to further advances in permaculture science... For now we have swales and Yeoman keylines, drains, and roads that go downhill on crest lines or according to contour. But maybe the study of the complex curves of these mounds could teach us more advanced ways to manage slope.