Has anyone ever given any thought to trying to capture all the floodwaters that seem to be increasing lately, and moving them to the more drought affected areas?

    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Pretty sure there are existing methods of filtering such things out but i havent looked into it that deep(no pun intended)

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        5 months ago

        If you filter the water through some sand, soil etc, it’s clean enough for many uses. There are systems that treat toilet water this way and then release the water into the environment. You just need lots of land in order to filter a small volume of water, so this method doesn’t really scale up very well.