Scenarios about 'irrigation'
The systematic application of water to land to assist crop growth, practiced since ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt around 6000 BCE. Irrigation technologies, from simple furrow systems to modern drip methods, have enabled agricultural productivity in arid regions, transformed landscapes, and supported population growth throughout history. In alternate history scenarios, different irrigation developments could dramatically alter settlement patterns, agricultural capabilities, and the rise and fall of civilizations.
What If Asian Rice Cultivation Adopted Different Practices?
Exploring the alternate timeline where East Asian civilizations developed dry farming rice techniques rather than wet paddy agriculture, potentially reshaping the agricultural, social, and environmental development of Asia and beyond.
What If Khartoum Implemented Different Nile Water Management?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Sudan adopted advanced water conservation and management policies for the Nile River in the late 20th century, potentially transforming regional agriculture, geopolitics, and environmental outcomes across East Africa.
What If The Aral Sea Disaster Was Prevented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Soviet planners recognized the ecological consequences of their irrigation schemes, preventing one of the worst environmental catastrophes in human history.
What If The Aral Sea Never Dried Up?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Soviet irrigation projects didn't devastate Central Asia's Aral Sea, preserving one of the world's largest inland bodies of water and the ecological and economic systems that depended on it.
What If The Murray-Darling Basin Implemented Different Water Management?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Australia's Murray-Darling Basin implemented more sustainable water management policies in the early 2000s, dramatically altering the environmental, agricultural, and economic trajectory of the nation's food bowl.