By Futurist Thomas Frey
When Engineering Meets Winter
We’re facing a fundamental problem: water exists where and when we don’t need it, and disappears where and when we do. Rivers course through the Pacific Northwest while the Mississippi becomes muddy shallows. California agriculture withers during droughts while the Pacific Ocean glimmers 150 miles away. Glaciers that feed 20% of the world’s population are retreating at 210 gigatons annually.
The solution isn’t just moving water through space—it’s moving water through time. And the most ingenious approach might be artificial glaciers: frozen fountains storing winter runoff for spring agriculture when natural glaciers can’t provide it yet.
Let me show you how this works and why it represents the future of water management in an era when conservation alone won’t solve distribution problems.
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