The Revived Water Cycle - How humans can heal planet earth and resolve the climate crisis

Humans can also be a creative, constructive force within Earth’s ecosystems. By creating decentralized water retention landscapes we act as keystone species, reviving the health of our land and water. Join the Water Stories community to learn how and for more stories, films, community, and animations of water cycle restoration.
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Humans as Keystone Species
This shift takes place by transforming the water-sheds that have been created, back into water-catchments. Community driven, decentralized water retention projects rehydrate landscapes and restore the health and vitality of ecosystems and communities. When we act for water, it creates positive ripple effects through the web of life.
How Do We Do It?
It starts with a newfound respect for water and nature - changing our relationship from one of control, to one of cooperation and symbiosis. Reforesting, revegetating, terracing landscapes, and creating water bodies, all helps the land receive the seasonal rains. Decentralized Water Retention Landscapes help distribute and balance the availability of this vital resource. Reconnecting waterways with their floodplains, and providing space for water to gather and infiltrate during flood events, further increases the seasonal recharge. Treating the catchment area by reestablishing forests, diverse vegetation and consistent groundcover improves the health of the soil, and the infiltration and retention of rains.
What Are the Results?
Storing the seasonal rains within the earth-body ensures abundant and healthy water supplies throughout the year, and into the future. Rehydrating the landscape gives ecosystems the change to rebound to a state of health. Fresh water from the oceans is recharged back into the earth, replenishing groundwater and aquifers. Springs come back to life, and the streams and rivers become full of fish and wildlife once again. With abundant water, vegetation photosynthesizes for longer throughout the year, cooling the air and regulating the temperature - the heat dissipates. Hygroscopic microorganisms growing within the forests drift into the atmosphere, again seeding water vapor into clouds and then rain. The forests trap heat as they convert water from a liquid to a gas, for that heat to then be released higher in the atmosphere when the gas re-condenses back into a liquid. The low pressure systems created by this process draw in more humidity from the coast. This forms a feedback loop. In this way The Full Water Cycle can be restored, and with it a balanced and productive climate.
How long does it take?
When working with water, people see the results of their efforts after the first rainy season. Year after year the landscape stays green for longer and is more productive. As the ecosystem develops interconnectedness and complexity, productivity continues to increase. These actions make sense for a human time scale as they provide us feedback with each passing rain. Huge transformations are possible within a decade, and people clearly see the results of their actions quickly, empowering them to gain confidence and community to expand their work.
Want to learn more?
Participate here! Join the discussions, watch our videos, and share with your friends, family, and community. Without people around the world implementing these solutions, the potential impact cannot be realized. This revolution is by the people, and for the people and planet.
Watch Reviving Rivers, A Renatured Life, or Desert or Rainforest to see real life examples. Join the Core Course to learn how to do this for yourself and to become a Water Restoration Practitioner.
Together we can restore the health of our planet!

[@neerajdwivedi2558]

Very beautiful, if you want to make the beauty of nature and life healthy then plant the earth with green trees and plants and not only humans but all the living beings of the whole world. save the life of

[@4kpliter791]

AMAZING

[@TreesAreAwesome]

This is such a fantastic video! Brilliant and concise explanation and beautiful and engaging visuals. Thank you for creating and sharing!!!

[@Cedders001]

Increasing distributed water retention is important to adapt to increasingly erratic and intense precipitation, but surely to say it can 'heal planet earth and resolve the climate crisis' is a vast overstatement. main resolution to the climate crisis has to involve an end to moving fossil carbon to air and water. It's not clear exactly what the video proposes, although of course we need to take care of water generally and investigate and oppose companies extracting from declining water tables, discharging sewage into rivers and causing other pollution.

[@mischevious]

Healing the Earth, resolving the water crisis and addressing the climate crisis are all the same objectives.
I think you need to ask yourself what it is specifically that you’re trying to save.
For most people it’s human civilization they want to preserve. For me it’s life on Earth and the two goals are diametrically opposed.
If it’s eight billion humans with a globalized technological civilization you’re hoping to save, then you need to understand that the warming climate is only one aspect of our larger ecological predicament; overshoot. That we’re living far beyond nature’s ability to recover from the damage we’re doing or replace what we’re taking. That we’re causing by far the fastest extinction event in the Earth’s history. And that the hour is late, it’s all but done. We’re losing a rough 200 species per day, several dozen self reinforcing climate feedback loops are already in play. The Earth is in a state of rapid heating now and even still, we’re not going to stop pumping millions of gigatons of heat into the atmosphere every day.
The super-organism that is homo-petro-techno colossus has a life of it’s own now that we cannot control. Every economy on the planet is fossil fuel dependent, every one of eight billion humans only exists as a direct result of fossil fuels. And worse, now exists in a state of total dependence on them for our survival. This period in human history isn’t normal! It’s an anomalous one, a fraction of a second in Earth-time, the briefest of moments in human time, in which we’re dredging up all the carbon that took millions of years for nature to sequester in under a hundred years. Purely for the energy that fuels our extraction, that fuels our civilization, that we now can’t live without.
Every individual understands that infinite growth in a finite world isn’t possible, has an obvious inevitable unpleasant end. And yet our civilization is based and run on that very premise.
So, the Earth’s living systems are collapsing in tandem with human population growth and consumption, the definitive end of this living arrangement is on the horizon.
But this doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re doomed to go extinct, or that life on Earth is either. That really depends on how many of us can get our priorities in order and get to work. For me, I’m done with human civilization.
But I’ve only just begun fighting for life on Earth- human habitat.

[@futurecaredesign]

Amazing how you pressed such a beautiful message into such a short video!

[@Snappypantsdance]

Thank you for believing and sharing that humans aren’t destructive by nature I know a lot of people anymore say that we are and that we should be there species that goes but I just don’t believe that I think, like you, that we need to do much better:).

[@Snappypantsdance]

Really nice music by the way:).