Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer

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Today I’m joined by Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems working on water retention landscapes.

Thank you Judith D. Schwartz for the introduction to Zach! 

Take aways from the interview:

• Climate change is a symptom of the severe water cycle disturbance and there is something we can do about it! 
• When the landscape isn’t being recharged with water, it leads to flooding and drought (worst case also fire)
• Humans desertified 1/3 of the earth’s cover the last 10.000 years
• We are carbon based life but the living part is mostly water
• There is much more you (as a land owner/manager) to influence the water cycle on and above your land- Often when we talk about water we talk about big centralised water systems or the weather, Zach is focussed on decentralised water retention landscapes- Sub-irrigated, you use a lot less energy
• Climate changes: everywhere the same story the precipitation is more when it comes and it comes less often
• Large dams and reservoirs are very energy intensive, smaller decentralised water retention systems are much more efficient
• Flood fire and drought mitigation is a sector Zach is very interested in

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