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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 1 – Aquaponics 🐟🥬
🌾🌡 Climate Change & Agriculture With climate change leading to more hydrologic droughts (see in this WaterWednesday) and increased surface drying, agriculture becomes more and more threatened. Some crops cant go long without water, thus resulting in crop losses, endangering food security. While irrigation can help, groundwater, which is often used to water plants during dry…
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🌊Flood Resilience Part 2: Sponge Cities 🧽🏙
🛣🏜 Cities, aka sealed asphalt deserts Our cities are currently build to drain rainwater FAST! With surface sealing by asphalted streets and concrete houses, rainwater is mostly directly converted to runoff. This runoff is then channeled into sewers, which (in case of a mixed sewer) should guide it to a wastewater treatment plant. With increases…