Devan Wickland

🌻 I definitely agree with these ideas. I would not want to get ground water if I could just collect rain. Perfect rain! And I think it's true that trees and plants and mulches accumulate water by nature and  many gallons of rainwater could be collected simply by mulching in the desert. I like this figure in a low water use plant book.

I just was scrolling through the community garden startups on one of those kickstarter websites. One purposed community garden would be in the sonoran desert. They said the only problem they have is they need to figure out the most sustainable way to pump water from the underground aquifer that was on the property. I wonder what other people think of drinking up the underground water, especially in the desert... Is it inherently unsustainable to do this?... If rather then drilling, you collect rainwater, does that deplete the streams and rivers downhill???
Thanks!!