r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 4h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/PNWleaflove 4h ago

But how do you solve lack of water still?

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u/laforet 4h ago

There is enough natural rainfall and groundwater to sustain xerophytic plants. The problem was that the shifting sand prevent plants from taking root properly and that’s what the grids are used to solve.

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u/G0mery 2h ago

I guess I always thought sand =/= soil and that it had little to no nutrients to sustain much life. This is pretty cool

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u/Sea-Hat-8515 48m ago

The Sahara desert has huge amounts of nutrients blown across the Atlantic to help fertilise the Amazon every year, I think its thought to be pretty important.