Comments on: The Silicon Valley of Water? http://blog.acumenfund.org/2009/04/08/the-silicon-valley-of-water/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Peter Donovan http://blog.acumenfund.org/2009/04/08/the-silicon-valley-of-water/#comment-166731 Peter Donovan Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:17:37 +0000 http://blog.acumenfund.org/?p=1139#comment-166731 It's easy to continue to think that water problems are engineering problems, and that better or more appropriate technology is needed to counteract increasing scarcity. Yet the fundamental level of water collection, for many of the world's people, is the soil surface. The ability of the soil to accept water, retain it through dry periods, supply more streamflows, and filter it is often overlooked, and water is regarded as an engineering or hydrology problem. At the bottom of this page there is a short video demonstrating this, which I learned from a Namibian. http://managingwholes.com/eco-water-cycle.htm It’s easy to continue to think that water problems are engineering problems, and that better or more appropriate technology is needed to counteract increasing scarcity.

Yet the fundamental level of water collection, for many of the world’s people, is the soil surface. The ability of the soil to accept water, retain it through dry periods, supply more streamflows, and filter it is often overlooked, and water is regarded as an engineering or hydrology problem.

At the bottom of this page there is a short video demonstrating this, which I learned from a Namibian.

http://managingwholes.com/eco-water-cycle.htm

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