Quite. Even here in Ireland, where rain is a way of life, water management is increasingly essential.biffvernon wrote:There is plenty of rain in this area but it tends to come in short sudden bursts just when it isn't needed. The solution is not rocket science but the same water management techniques that have been used for a couple of millennia.
Very often, in many parts of the world, the solution to the water problem involves a lot of manual labour, small reservoirs, collection and distribution ditches and compost. Small scale, organic, farming, with good management of whatever the skies throw down, supplying local demand is likely to increase both employment and food yields.
We have at least 3,000 litres of rain collection capacity and it recently ran out, meaning extra-careful irrigation using our deep well. We had a couple of short downpours today but nowhere near sufficient.
Our neighbours don't give a hoot about rainwater collection, drowning their half acre of spuds twice a day from their deep well, which is no doubt drawing on the same aquifer as ours.