Friday September 2, 2022
Daily Wire —
Experts are hoping to employ a “dam good” solution to the continued problem of droughts and wildfires raging across the western U.S.
Researchers in California and Utah are reintroducing beavers to parts of the two states in the hope that they will supply water to drought-parched regions by building dams. The researchers told CBS News that dams block river and stream water that can be stored and eventually deposited into the ground, which will also help create a barrier against fires.
“A lot of the water in California is not from snowmelt. It’s from the groundwater and these beavers are recharging it for us,” California State University professor Emily Fairfax told CBS News. “They are sort of depositing water into the bank that we take out at a later date.”
“Beavers move in here and they slow this water down,” Fairfax added. “A lot of it goes into recharging the groundwater and that’s what we’re pumping for irrigation. That’s what we use for our food. That’s what we use for our lawns.”