Eliminating water shortages and forest fires
- this can be done with forests that have ponds and lakes
The list: To make the landscape vibrant like it was 300
years ago, it requires
-- 1. Excavate pits and depressions for new ponds and lakes
- the excavated material creates new little hills for
forests, playgrounds, or sports
-- 2. Install pond chains on slopes (fish, crab,
electricity)
-- 3. COMBINE reforestation with new ponds and new lakes
-- 4. Occasionally (every 3 to 4 years) organize floods in
the forest
-- 5. Channelized rivers should regain their meanders so
that they do not flow so quickly anymore
-- 6. Install natural sewage treatment plants: install
planted filtration systems with reeds, etc.
-- 7. My idea: Excavate a lake for every city - and produce
one part of the vegetable production in skyscrapers or with
permaculture
-- 8. Install solar energy at a height of 3m - and one can
plant in the shade
-- 9. In the Mediterranean region, the warm sun should also
promote good growth: mangos, bananas, papayas, kiwis, etc.
(replacing Brazil and New Zealand)
-- 10. With all these new elements in the countryside, 1)
the countryside will no longer dry out and 2) it will become
attractive for new people to live there.
The details:
1. Raise the groundwater level: Restore reservoirs or
meanders
-- All reservoirs that were destroyed in the Valencia region
in 2024 should be restored to keep the groundwater level
high and prevent the landscape from drying out.
-- Alternatively, the old meanders of streams and rivers can
be restored so that the flowing waters do not flow so
quickly anymore - this allows more water to seep into the
groundwater, thereby raising the groundwater level - the
installation of the old or new meanders should happen BEFORE
the destruction of a reservoir!
2. Raising the groundwater level: Forests must have ponds
and small lakes
2a. About 200 years ago, all ponds and lakes in forests
were destroyed to "gain land" - and thus the groundwater
level fell
-- The forests were often replanted about 200 years ago as
"row plantations" in a military manner - or vines were
planted - and
ponds and small lakes were filled up
with earth, covered, and turned into soil under
the belief that ponds and small lakes had no utility - in
this way, "land was gained."
-- However, ponds and small lakes provide a
water
source in summer, summer sports, and water for
firefighting - and these ponds and lakes also
guarantee that the groundwater level remains high and the
springs in the landscape will bubble.
-- Moreover, ponds and small lakes
in winter provide
a sports opportunity when they freeze, for ice
skating and ice hockey, etc. - from 15 cm ice thickness -
streams and rivers from 20 cm ice thickness (
link
(German))
-- So we see: About 200 years ago, the destruction of ponds
and lakes was exactly the WRONG thing to do: By eliminating
ponds and lakes in the landscape, the groundwater level
drops and springs dry up - therefore, deep wells had to be
drilled, and in the end, the landscape is entirely left
without water - the forests become extremely dry in summer
and catch fire easily - or the tree roots can no longer
reach the groundwater, die off even, and thus the landscape
becomes a steppe or even a desert.
-- And this is exactly what is happening in Spain, Portugal,
Italy, South of France, Greece, and Turkey: The people
responsible for industrialization about 200 years ago have
DESTROYED, FILLED IN ponds and lakes and transformed them
into forests and vineyards for alcohol, unaware that they
were destroying the groundwater, which, without ponds and
lakes, is increasingly sinking, so that the forest remains
dust dry in summer and easily catches fire - or that deserts
can even form
-- Or forests were cleared (for wooden ships or for charcoal
production, etc.), the stumps were also removed, fields and
meadows were created where grazing livestock ate away the
grass cover, everything dried out, and steppes and deserts
emerged, as it happened in North Africa and Syria. This is
how deserts can be created...
2b. Immediate measure: Close forests in dry
Mediterranean countries from 30 degrees Celsius
-- Certain mentally ill people find it "funny" to set fire
to forests with cigarettes or intentionally spreading
burning of gasoline and then to organize a fire
extinguishing party with the fire brigade - so the first
measure would be to CLOSE the forests in the dry states
Spain, Portugal, Italy, South of France, Greece and Turkey
from 30 degrees and to monitor the forest edges with drones
so that no more mentally ill people go in there
-- this is how it was done this year 2025 in Canada: Forests
were CLOSED (
link
(German) Aug 10, 2025), but also in Canada ponds and lakes
were DESTROYED, which are now missing there (!).
2c. Forests need ponds and lakes - reforestation must be
COMBINED WITH new ponds and lakes
To make the landscape vibrant like it was 300 years ago, it
requires
-- 1. Excavate pits and depressions for new ponds and lakes
- the excavated material creates new little hills for
forests, playgrounds, or sports
-- 2. Install pond chains on slopes (fish, crab,
electricity)
-- 3. COMBINE reforestation with new ponds and new lakes
-- 4. Occasionally (every 3 to 4 years) organize floods in
the forest
-- 5. Channelized rivers should regain their meanders so
that they do not flow so quickly anymore
-- 6. Install natural sewage treatment plants: install
planted filtration systems with reeds, etc.
-- 7. My idea: Excavate a lake for every city - and produce
one part of the vegetable production in skyscrapers or with
permaculture
-- 8. Install solar energy at a height of 3m - and one can
plant in the shade
-- 9. In the Mediterranean region, the warm sun should also
promote good growth: mangos, bananas, papayas, kiwis, etc.
(replacing Brazil and New Zealand)
-- 10. With all these new elements in the countryside, 1)
the countryside will no longer dry out and 2) it will become
attractive for new people to live there.
Details:
To make the landscape vibrant like it was 300 years ago:
1. There are
pits and depressions needed to be dug
out again where new ponds and lakes can be
created - or an uninhabited valley will be blocked off with
an artificial dam or an artificial reservoir wall (see the
lake in
Tamera in Portugal by Sepp Holzer (
link)):
The lake was created with a natural dam made of clay - it
took 3 years to fill up in winter - and since then, the
landscape has normalized with plants and wildlife - the
steppe has DISAPPEARED - [the outflow of the reservoir
probably runs in a small waterproof concrete streambed over
the dam - I did not see this] - the groundwater level rose
and the old springs and streams in the area began to bubble
up again (!)
2.
Entire chains of ponds and lakes can be created on
slopes and in terraced mountains, with the sale
of fish, crayfish, and a small power production (see Sepp
Holzer's farm in Austria near Salzburg with
72 ponds
-
link)
- you can see: The many small reservoirs in the Valencia
region were such a pond chain - and the destruction of this
pond chain and the provocation of the flooding of Valencia
in 2024 was a complete nonsense and a gigantic crime (
link)
- the Alpine countries of France, Switzerland, Austria, and
Italy thrive with small reservoirs in the Alps, as long as
the residual water levels in the flowing waters remain
vibrant and the groundwater in the valleys maintains its
high level. Spain should therefore not destroy these
facilities in the Pyrenees or other mountain regions.
3. One can see:
transforming deserts into forests and
reforestation (
link)
MUST be COMBINED with pond construction and the
excavation of new lakes to create a vibrant
forest that does not dry out and does not burn.
4. From time to time (every 3 to 4 years) a forest should
also
be flooded to saturate the soil and create
moisture reserves for the summer.
5.
Restoring meanders: Since around 1700 in
the "industrialized countries," most rivers have been
"straightened" and "channeled", but channeled rivers flow
far too quickly, causing the groundwater to drop there as
well - thus, one must restore the old meanders to reduce the
flow speed - this is how the plant and animal life returns
which can only thrive in slow-flowing waters - the bays of
rivers and streams are the "nurseries" of aquatic animals.
This is how everything makes sense (!).
6.
Plant purification system: Certain aquatic plants
clean the water (e.g., reed) and act like a
natural plant purification system (see Mossad-Wikipedia:
Plant Purification System (constructed wetland -
link)
- this allows also swimming in the water - if a pond or lake
has a certain area of reeds, this is an indicator that the
water is clean - and reed areas also promote aquatic life,
as the reeds provide the 'nurseries' and nests for many
aquatic animals.
In this way, the countries in the Mediterranean region, as
well as Canada, North Africa, Asia, and Australia, can
restore a normal landscape that is less likely to catch fire
in the summer
-- PLUS to normalize the groundwater level, so that there
will never be a water shortage again
-- PLUS there will be many more sports opportunities and
variety in life - PLUS the animal and plant life will
normalize.
-- AND: Overall, the crime rate in society will also
decrease because life WITH nature IS normalized WITH the
planet Mother Earth (then natural sciences will be taught in
schools and natural medicine will be offered as a carreer).
And in this way, every state in the Mediterranean can save
itself - this also applies to all other Mediterranean
states, and Canada, North Africa, Asia, and Australia
7.
Idea: A lake for every city
In general, I believe that every city should have a lake of
the same size as the city has - or at least half as big -
for water sports and to connectin the people with Mother
Earth, as with the plant and animal world. Agriculture can
be organized with permaculture saving large land areas (
link),
or also in agricultural skyscrapers (
link).
This way, space is freed up for new lakes that often existed
in former times.
8.
Solar energy at 3 meters height: Solar
energy can be installed at a height of 3 meters on
fields (see: Solar energy on the first floor -
link
(German)) so the fields are partly in the shade
of the solar collectors and crops can be grown in the shade
(this is also done in China). This also leads to a
symbiosis, and the fields are hardly harmed (cables and
transformer stations).
But: In hail-prone areas and where snow falls in winter,
solar collectors should be tiltable in case of hail and snow
to an angle of 90 degrees. Alternatively, one can fix the
solar collectors at a 90-degree angle – this results in some
energy yield loss, but nothing is lost during hail, and snow
hardly sticks to the vertically mounted solar collector at a
90-degree angle. In this way, one can save repairs and
cleaning work in snowy conditions.
And recycling solar collectors after 30 years of operation
remains a problem. And when a solar panel breaks, the shards
are toxic and the soil must be replaced because of the
shards. So not all problems with solar panels have been
solved yet. Research is lacking.
Solar panels can also catch fire; they are not harmless and
require regular inspections.
The final
I repeat: To make the landscape vibrant like it was 300
years ago, it requires
-- 1. Excavate pits and depressions for new ponds and lakes
- the excavated material creates new little hills for
forests, playgrounds, or sports
-- 2. Install pond chains on slopes (fish, crab,
electricity)
-- 3. COMBINE reforestation with new ponds and new lakes
-- 4. Occasionally (every 3 to 4 years) organize floods in
the forest
-- 5. Channelized rivers should regain their meanders so
that they do not flow so quickly anymore
-- 6. Install natural sewage treatment plants: install
planted filtration systems with reeds, etc.
-- 7. My idea: Excavate a lake for every city - and produce
one part of the vegetable production in skyscrapers or with
permaculture
-- 8. Install solar energy at a height of 3m - and one can
plant in the shade
-- 9. In the Mediterranean region, the warm sun should also
promote good growth: mangos, bananas, papayas, kiwis, etc.
(replacing Brazil and New Zealand)
-- 10. With all these new elements in the countryside, 1)
the countryside will no longer dry out and 2) it will become
attractive for new people to live there.
