Greening the Desert: the First Rainfall of the Season
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- čas přidán 1. 11. 2018
- At 400m below sea level, the Dead Sea valley is the lowest place on earth. It gets the Mediterranean rainfall pattern of winter rain, but because it is in an orographic rain shadow (where the landscape changes weather, lifting the air so that moisture cools and falls), it gets below 150 millimeters (less than 6 inches) of rain per year, and that often comes in one or two large rain events.
Last Thursday, the first rainfall of the season hit the project, and I was able to capture the raindrops and flows of the water.
Tragically, heavy rain began causing flash floods in the Wadi Zarqa Maeen located about 50km south-west of Amman and 10km from the project site.
It has devastated the region, and my deepest condolences go out to the lives of the people that were lost and their families.
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This man deserves a Nobel Prize for the work he is doing.
This project needs to take place just outside las vegas
awesome I love the updates
Great ideas to transform deserts into usable land.
Geoff Lawton is offering the world a huge gift... are we listening?
Geoff, you’re absolutely THE Man!!! Love what you’re doing🌱🌎🌍🌏
Love the video, Geoff...In the low desert of Metro Phoenix Arizona...an we typically now get close to 7 inches a yr or less of rain...but love it when it comes !!
So grateful for your presence in this world Geoff. How exciting to see the rain bringing your hard work to fruition. So sad to see the people themselves still suffering in the flood. I hope and pray they take up your projects and improve life for themselves. Thanks.
Best of luck dear Geoff!
Terrific! So glad you got rain. So good that you're fixing everything. God bless you Geoff
I have a similar frustration living in the Ozarks. We get torrential rain, which runs off the hill terrain in a hurry, causing flash flooding that damages roads and Bridges and costs lives as well.
Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much for sharing! I am inspired!
geoff you have so much knowledge about permaculture i want to learn it aswell
Its nice to see an elevated veiw of the site and surrounding area.
My condolences for the lives lost.
The sound is good. Don't worry about that.
This man is a blessing in dsguise!
The skies look dire, but everyone's just ecstatic that it's raining - filling the coffers to gushing point!
Well done, and awesome, but, sorry for the losses in the region. The design works, good on all of you. 👍
Holy moly the shot at 46seconds in of the desert in the background should be the new background of the pri. Amazing to see that contrast of forest and desert