20 October

Peter Andrews' work says the same thing. You have to store the water in the soil, not in dams. I suspect this is also why Australia doesn't really have big rivers like other continents do. The water doesn't flow out to sea, the landscape captures it. Or it used to. Once you put obstacles in the way of the water, to slow it down, you discover the pattern again. https://www.theguardian.com/vitasoy-growing-a-better-world/2022/oct/19/from-concrete-to-sponge-how-to-slow-the-flow-on-australias-farmland