Comments on: Watering Deserts

By: jobs in graphic design

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By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:26:11 +0000

Cute idea… How appropriate!

By: Mikehattan

Mikehattan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:35:48 +0000

Last year, I was out early in a very foggy morning in Page Valley VA and I passed some wire fences and noticed nearly every little square in the fence had a spiders web in it. The droplets of water were very abundant on every web. Segueing to the comment about the greedy goats, didn’t someone recently invent a very strong fiber made by combining some spider DNA with that of goats horns? Just asking.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:48:33 +0000

Man Oman,

I think there was a similar problem in Syria, with people grazing goats where they shouldn’t. If people are involved in permacultural practices however, they can renew the land in time.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:35:52 +0000

Very amusing, got it, and thanks for the pic

By: Oman

Oman — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:42:31 +0000

“this mesh, in the absence of trees in the region”

– in fact there are trees – here is a picture that shows a scene http://ynotoman.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ynotomanstork.jpg

However in amongst those trees are camels, cows and goats in unsustainable numbers – the trees don’t stand a chance, except on precipitous slopes. The plateau of the mountains is now practically devoid of trees and has no re-growth

So the mesh is substituting for the trees that were there, but were eaten by the animals that are there, to create water to irrigate trees that might be there, for the animals that will be there to eat, when the fence is destroyed.