Rainfall is the major source for water and soil moisture in the semi-arid and dry locations. During summer monsoon season due to failure of rains, agriculture becomes vulnerable and crops faces severe water stress. To get out of this situation governments planned and executed the cloud seeding and got mixed results. As the weather is conducive at one place for getting the rains after cloud seeding and some times due to direction of wind the targetted area may not be getting the rains. This ultimately regarded as failure eventhough the resultant rain occurs in other areas. In view of the above, do we have any other technological (laser / any other light o sound frequency) development for creating rains in the targeted areas?
If the humidity is medium to high, you can stretch out netting (like they do in the Atacama) to collect the water (from the moisture in the air).
Rain water precipitation is linked to land use and management. On land plants lose water to the atmosphere, which returns to the soil through rain or snow. Therefore, reforestation, conservation of forested areas and an employment of trees in agriculture (including a shift of farming toward a use of perennial crops instead of annuals) are all strategies to facilitate the flux of the hydrologic water cycle.
Artificial rain making other than cloud seeding is possible, however that is not sufficient to meet up demand, and not sustainable.
Thank you, Drs. Michael and Bruno. Can you kindly elaborate Dr. Biswajit Karmakar?
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