Hi! All, I live in the driest state on the driest continent and have to do battle with water, or the lack of it for much of the year. (Port Lincoln, South Australia)
In Australia, there has been a lot of work done to allow local food production in areas where there is little available water, such as remote communities and ABoriginal settlements. This has been on ways of water harvesting and mulching etc. Through Phil Callahan's work, we know that soil with a high Paramagnetic value tends to resist evaporation and is conducive to precipitation, including high dew fall. Put simply, if one can up the Paramagnetic value, you will get more effective water harvesting from the atmosphere and less given up to the atmosphere. It would also seem that the right conditions will help hold the water in the soil layer, rather than allow migration to the sub-soil and beyond. Effective dew fall can add up to many inches of rain equivalent in a fall year. Reducing evaporation can be significant. In my area, right on the coast, we get about nineteen inches of rain and have a six or seven foot evaporation rate. A hundred miles away, it is ten inches and fourteen to sixteen feet. Much of the inland is less than five inches and tens of feet. When flying to England, we went over many of the "Gulf States" and the "Biblical Lands". In times past, these were forested and productive, where I saw only deserts. I think the key factor has been the destruction of the Paramagnetic force in the soil. This allows more evaporation and does not attract dew fall. Those who have read Callahan and that of those who hang from his Lab Coat tails, will know that a Diamagnetic soil can change toward Paramagnetic with the inclusion of oxygen, humates and a vital soil biota, in other words, if one establishes a well functioning BD environment, we start to get some of the advantages of a Paramagnetic condition. More effective water harvesting and less loss though evaporation. When In England I was mainly in areas that have rainfall not unlike the parts of Australia, that are nearly desert, like my own area. I think the key difference is the much lower evaporation. On my own land, where we have really built the soil up and got it firing, we use much less water than in the areas we are still working on. If one is looking for an a lead in to promote the wide spread use of BD, consider the water retention/ harvest aspect. On highly Diamagnetic soils, I would also consider adding Paramagnetic rock dust. Gil
