Water + Carbon

Water compostition of earth

97.5% = saltwater

2.5% = fresh water

of the fresh water 67% inaccesseble

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precipitation, anticedant, soil type, snow, shape of basin, rock, temp, agriculture, vegetation, urbanisation, deforestation, afforestation

4 Flooding improvements

• resevoirs

• management

• forest cover in ireland went from 1%→11%

• £500,000 scheme helped yorkshire town miss winter floods

Water cycle changes 4

• Public demand for freshwater aquifers in S england =over abstraction= seasonal springs drying up=no recreation, worse in industrial rev when groundwater was 88m below sea level, now its recovering

• cloud seeding in idaho to increase precipitation

• Tourist resorts have huge demand that groundwater was infiltrated with salt so malta is now using desalinisation plants

• soil drainage systems can support farming and increase productivity but it increases flooding and wind erosion

Mitigation

• $800 million dam in Saskatchuwan captureds 90% of carbon emmissions by pumping its co2 emissions into rock and extracting oil

• COP 21 limit 2 degree rise

Adaptation

• spain lost 20% of its freshwater in 20 years so made policy changes