Ancient practices to increase water storage in desert aquifers 💧💦 | Waterpedia

A video from Waterpedia on #WaterWednesday about how modern scientists are using ancient practices to try to increase water storage in desert aquifers.
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[@korliyon2283]

The sharp graph also describes the audio in this video

[@mohit5496]

😂😂😂

[@Benjamin.A.]

lmao

[@bonsaiman75]

💯

[@toozy101]

Seriously were they trying to make us deaf.

[@hornstein12]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@abitoftheuniverse2852]

For anyone watching this and picking up with the error in making this video keeping the sound level, keep this in mind, watch your own video before you upload it, especially if you do any sort of editing, like putting clips, animation, video or recordings together in your editor/video maker , of choice. As for the subject discussed in this video, I think it's a brilliant thing that people do this around to world. I live in Michigan, and love this area, this is what the Great Lakes on one of the largest scales on Earth; giant catchment basins for rainwater. This sort of thing is going to be tremendously important for Earth, all around the globe. And the more things people are putting out on the subject, the better. The evaporation of water from the oceans, is only going to rise as sea levels and the surface area of them, increases, along with expected temperatures. Plant life has the ability to counteract that in many ways, and we can even find an abundance of more food, and resources, along with the plant life, that will help to make vast areas of Earth, like the desert regions, one day, not just habitable, but, places where life can flourish, in much the same way as it flourishes all around the Great Lakes. Someday I hope we can do this on the grandest of scales; to retain water in places we need it most, but, also to store up the Earth's water, in the land, and find a greater abundance of all life, balances out, with the water available on the surface of the wondrous source of life, that is, this planet.

[@Faisal_Afr]

Man, the ending scared the crap out of me with the extremely loud animation sound.

[@fillfinish7302]

@@Faisal_Afr same was unexpected 😂

[@hoboonwheels9289]

Most plant life in its wild form is inedible by humans, that's why meat is important as it digests it for us.

[@RAL5210]

The sound volume was recorded too low

[@denniso8049]

The sudden burst of audio in the end almost gave me a heart attack. I like the animation thou.

[@Blueleaves1759]

😀😄😀😃😄😁😆👏👏👏🤪

[@weast_east_coast]

😂😂

[@SweetLoveTarot]

It would be great if you would repost this at an audible level.

[@RandyRandersonthefamous]

Extremely useful information. If only public works focused on working with nature instead of against it!

[@kevintewey1157]

Never under capitalism always under communism if it would happen

[@downbntout]

Nice presentation. Cattle managed properly can improve vegetation and repair eroded streambanks. A single hoofprint, shallow or deeper, provides a spot for a bit of infiltration and a harbor for seeds spread by winds. Plant roots encourage infiltration greatly

[@marksandsberry8820]

There is a drastic drop-off in volume after the intro. Wearing headphones and turning up the volume to hear the video gave me a sudden blast of overly loud wrapup noise at the end.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Just to let you know ... your audio is very low, but that whistling thing at the end is super loud.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

This is probably pretty interesting but I can only hear someone reading something exceedingly quietly in the background.

[@Heather-xm9ul]

Why is the intro insanely loud, and the rest of video is nearly on mute?

[@kd5txo]

good information....totally inadequate audio volume level. Please go in and boost it up

[@downunderfulla6001]

It’s certainly works well in the Middle East

[@douglasstraight3648]

Please fix the audio so the volume is louder.

[@fernanvid]

para poder leer el close caption en español, hay que configurar el mismo en inglés. Así el programa de close caption va a poder traducir del inglés al español. De lo contrario el close caption intentará escuchar palabras en español, cuando en realidad la locutora está hablando en inglés. La comprensión se vuelve entonces imposible.

[@jacquest]

Interesting. If there is enough funding, they can also dig side way channels, so the water can reach more parts and have more time to penetrate the area. Also try create a type of mesh(to simulate the function of vegetation) to insert into the river banks to retain the water for longer.

[@kevintewey1157]

You don't live in the USA do you?

[@austinmetro6317]

Excellent

[@someperson7]

Very interesting. What did you find out?

[@zaheenalam]

Wonderful presentation !

[@chrishoo2]

These new barriers also collect silt & slow erosion, so an all round good thing.

[@ArchitectClips]

Thank You

[@themaccabee1890]

Good work.... It really helps 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻..

[@davidbailey5334]

What about the massive bison herds?

[@khuziification]

Good

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

animals do not cause overgrazing bad management of them does if moved once a day they are a force for revegetation

[@samidhajain4694]

Humans arrived before A.D. .

[@bonnieoppelt2734]

Yeah, glad someone else noticed that too.

[@tomt637]

Good video. Sort your audio, the intro and outro are way out of balance with the rest of the videos volume

[@VilladsClaes]

The commentary has very low volume and then in the end there is an explosion of sound in the credits

[@MRSketch09]

Headphone users... R.I.P after 03:18.... Besides that, this was an interesting video, although I had to strain to hear the speaker, which is annoying.

[@kevingooley6189]

I need evidence to support these hypotheses.

[@yehmustafa2959]

fix the sound level

[@thefoodpriest6614]

What are gabions? Are they like loose stone boulder check dams?

[@mohamedmabrouk2797]

شكرا على المعلومات الثمينة

[@bslturtle]

That the ranchers tore down the indian's dams is questionable, it would have helped them. They most likely didn't maintain them though. The greatest influence was their cattle. The cattle ate the grass, trampled and hardened the soils, this reduced the friction on the water flowing INTO the arroyos causing higher peaked, more sudden flows. Hydrology 101.

[@CameronKiesser]

Intro and outro are too loud and the video was too quiet. Still a good video but edit with headphones next time.

[@Waterpedia]

Sure, thank you for your feedback

[@ANJA-mj1to]

Nice how you presented water storage in karst primaly concerned with the construction of the surface storage reservoires from early age. The construction of grouting curtains ensure the watertighteness of the surface reservoirs, and same time it reduces or completely eliminates the communitanion between the ground water in karte, thus, ground water storage are forme simeultaneously. ❤

[@kevenskilatonyius2178]

THAT BEAVERS JOB !

[@AOE5578]

Last one will prevent water from go to farther distance areas and that areas will be dry and more desert

[@solohash]

Ear pain alert near the end of this video turn down your ears phones other than that great video

[@JstJacko]

South eastern AZ was def peopled before 500 "AD"

[@hoboonwheels9289]

I've seen videographers showing how the professionals are "fixing" things.

[@greenarrow6689]

Very good sound, I can hear very clearly :D :D :D

[@Vectures]

the speakers voice is too low on this to be able to hear clearly.

[@sholbk]

Please fix the sound

[@ossieostrich69]

Good video. Bad audio.

[@y0nd3r]

Turned the volume up to 42 because the audio is horrible. Then at the very end they fixed the audio and it was like having the audio up to 80. Thanks for the fucking heart attack.

[@vishalstud3124]

Nice animation and pictorial representation 🇮🇳 ❤🇳🇱 .

[@katrielp]

Problem with sound.

[@sferrari81]

You need to get your sound levels squared away. I literally shit myself at the end.

[@ltyr-mr2if]

Please fix the volume level. My eardrums almost burst when the normal levels came back!

[@davidarundel6187]

It's a good thing that attempts are being Mae to green the desert . How much in the way of learning , has come from the annual flooding that occurs in one of the sub-Saharan deserts ? The Desert concerned has featured in one of Sir David Attenbrough's BBC series a couple of times . Same question , regarding the inland sea that forms in Australia , when parts of the interior flood to produce Lake Erie . There's also attempts being made along the Atlantic edge of the Sahara , with mesh cloths being used to catch morning fog , to feed down the caught water , to the planted areas , . It's best to use plants native to the region for best results , as Lord Howe Islanders have found out , via introduced species of flora & fauna , and as New Zealand & Australia have also found out , as various native plant and animal species head towards extinction , due to non native imports by European invaders , initially brought in by Britain as it invaded the world , for King/Queen , and England . Namaste 🙏

[@alexbrazzer6751]

poor sound volume

[@hongha5076]

Sound is hard to hear

[@Vball2718]

Wtf is that intro volume

[@leelindsay5618]

Nice, but this doesn't take into account the large migrating herds pre-human activity nor does it differentiate the set-stock damage from the rotational or adaptive management of herds that mimicks the migrating herds within the landscape or fences. The adaptive methods have improved water infiltration across the entire landscape by increasing carbon sequestration in each section of the pasture as well as leaving forage to grow and increase in mass to then be eaten and trampled by the cattle then rested to regrow with fresh fertilizer patties.

[@l0gic23]

So did you find out?

[@phillpauley6672]

In other words, nature had it right to begin with and all we had to do is dig for water or slow the water flow to build up more water. Great video! Loved the graphs.

[@WillMdnMx]

I have a big stream and want to store water

[@davidklug5886]

really not into the sound effect on the water wednesdays bit.

[@orthodoxnazareneisrael3577]

Sound problem

[@jamesstone7778]

Soooo loud ... Then whisper mode ... then SHOCKINGLY LOUD because I turned the volume up to hear the whispers ... not a great experience! Useful information though.... hahaha

[@ObamaoZedong]

''Stocking cattle at more sustainable rates.'' Perhaps it would be best to say at slightly less unsustainable rates.

[@cowboythomas5904]

She leaves out after these streams are eroded about a foot or two this doesn't work. You need a flood plain

[@meatballboy777]

What’s the solution? Slowing down the water will slowly bring the level of the drainage higher!

[@robert6106]

You forgotten the part were there is a network of bore holes that drain the water table, lower and lower every year.

[@thestrongman11]

suban el volumen!!!!

[@aregst]

WTF is this loud noise??!

[@TheHappyshiv]

Beavers knew this before humans...

[@brandongreene9615]

Beavers were good at this before they were all trapped too

[@yawnbox]

omfg audio levels

[@bizzybee852]

Would be great if I could actually hear this video, the sound sucks!

[@vivekchowdhury2443]

first ive heard of gabions seems good idea but is man made so beware . Please get the audio sorted so the high volume intro and final credits are not so deafening . The audio of actual presentation is too low in comparison

[@Adnancorner]

too low sound

[@guyh.4553]

Gabions are a stabilizer, not a fix. For lateral transfer of water, you need to have natural vegetation, natural rock placement (or simulated to match), woody debris, off stream watering facilities, and ACTIVE ranching and shepherding by not keep livestock in 1 place until there's only 1 millimeter of plant life left. This has been way too over studied and not put into practice. BTW, horrible audio

[@kevintewey1157]

Do you think anything good would happen to the ecology or the "environment" under capitalism? 😴

[@alzack112]

It'll be great if I know what she's talking about 😳

[@replica1052]

when every living cell holds an ocean within water wants to flow slow

[@davidmarsh1167]

Sound!

[@bonnieoppelt2734]

Arizona was inhabited by the Anasazi in 500 AD.

[@bonnieoppelt2734]

@@jimmoses6617 thank you.

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet

[@aventurascomtadeu]

Need Tree

[@larmiisoren2568]

Good vid, although immediately these lands have been inhabited just as long as the Eastern Hemisphere was inhabited. There are actually many canals and other highly advanced agricultural structures which are not yet uncovered. Even down into modern-day Mexico, there are terraces and catchments which the very first European conquistadors were marveled by. The extents of civilization here has been suppressed however, I mean they literally built many cities over the ruins of the Ancient peoples. Water erosion was multiplied by the conquering methodology which included Scotched Earth, introduction of foreign domestic livestock after mass slaughter of the existing, deforestation and unconscious alterations to the hydrological systems often leading towards overutilization. By the 1800s the land was in a state of disrepair due to the hundreds of years of conflict to conquer and genocide of the indigenous people the stewards. There were many more methods then just the brush screens in use to support the millions of people here through the centuries. at the same time the Romans were out there building their empire there was people here doing the same you see. And the land was so very lush and fertile, (attractive to colonize) because of the employment of more then just a few simple brush structures which made it so. The land management of the indigenous peoples was incredible.

[@tejinderthakur9284]

This can be done on steep terrains.

[@justgivemethetruth]

not

[@canieatthatdonut7798]

grass, trees and Beavers.....

[@bengt-erikandersson6276]

Fuck! That soundlevel hitts my ears.😟

[@souvenirpinrang4]

A half of the Sahara Desert is located in the United States. Instead of busy carrying out air missions on Mars, it is time to allocate the rising Congo river flow and build a 5 km wide river stretching along the west coast of Africa to Mauritania and Western Sahara (Morocco) to stem the flow of the river from rivers in Africa by building embankments or anti-tsunami islands on the west coast of Africa from South Africa to Western Sahara Morocco and the Sahara Desert will return green if the air from the Congo river floods the Sahara Desert by using air to the upper river purbna using a hydraulic pump (Ram Pump) without electricity

[@justgivemethetruth]

>> A half of the Sahara Desert is located in the United States huh?

[@Blueleaves1759]

Sahara 🤪🤪🤪United States😄😆😃😁😀👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@neilmenzies2127]

WHAT DID SHE SAY ??????!!!!!!!!

[@Bobbyj438]

Beavers beavers beavers

[@oksettings5882]

Gud old bevers huh🤣

[@fredtjack23]

Could you please reupload? Thanks. I want to learn this and others. Smilee 😺

[@EcoAncestralAmorico]

My god Whats going on with the audio 4 god sake!! JESUS CHRIST!

[@kirkthiets2771]

Audio sucks!!! Turn up the output.

[@edwardgilmour9013]

zero volume !

[@imogen1]

The intro audio is so loud that you have to turn down the volume but then you can't hear the narration. You need to fix the sound mixing on this. It's actually one of the worst I have ever heard.

[@lhorthy]

voice over too quiet, sound effects deafeningly loud!

[@R3dp055um]

WAY fucked up audio! The intro is hella loud, and then the woman's voice is super low.

[@creestee08]

im dislking the video cuz the sound volume is poorly made.

[@lsittig]

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO! THE CONTRAST IN SOUND LEVELS MAY DAMAGE YOUR HEARING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE USING EARBUDS!

[@AriffAffendi]

nahhh.. its beaver job

[@donh8168]

Got my volume up to full blast and can barely hear the girl talking . Would’ve been a good video if not for that . Cut it off halfway through.

[@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial]

Absolutely awful audio levels.

[@grovermartin6874]

Umm, not an auspicious opening. "Before 500 a.d., humans hadn't been around in southern Arizona..." Better redo this after you read up on discoveries of the last two decades. That's embarrassing. I have better things to do than waste time on this junk.