10 points | by PaulHoule 3 days ago
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Plausibly "yes" - but if so, it should be obvious from satellite imagery. The article makes no mention of such.
(Context: Iran's IRGC could reasonably be viewed as a secretive government-controlled corporation, which dominates major parts of the economy.)
Wells are pretty small, pipelines are buried and not easy to see from the sky -- attempts to measure groundwater use detect the evaporation
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-groundwater-accurately-satelli...
or detect subsidence
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022WR03...
I was mostly thinking of large fields of water-hungry crops, growing in areas where climate would otherwise make that impossible.
Plausibly "yes" - but if so, it should be obvious from satellite imagery. The article makes no mention of such.
(Context: Iran's IRGC could reasonably be viewed as a secretive government-controlled corporation, which dominates major parts of the economy.)
Wells are pretty small, pipelines are buried and not easy to see from the sky -- attempts to measure groundwater use detect the evaporation
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-groundwater-accurately-satelli...
or detect subsidence
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022WR03...
I was mostly thinking of large fields of water-hungry crops, growing in areas where climate would otherwise make that impossible.