#maladaptation-lock-in
Issues, solutions, and case studies for maladaptation-lock-in
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#00203Long-distance and fossil-aquifer water transfer megaprojects
Pump water hundreds of kilometres or mine non-renewable aquifers to supply cities. A high-risk approach: systemic risk concentrates in a single artery, and fossil-aquifer mining is non-renewable by definition — making both patterns cautionary as much as options.
#00198Winter-filled substitution reservoirs with agroecological conditions (contested)
Pump shallow groundwater in winter into lined open reservoirs so farms substitute stored water for summer abstraction, tied by protocol to agroecological commitments. Contested: supporters cite modelling and court validation; opponents cite evaporation, resource capture, and mala
Case studies 2
Great Man-Made River Authority (Libyan state) · since 1984 · National
The Great Man-Made River, begun in 1984, is a roughly $25bn network pumping fossil water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer across hundreds of kilometres of desert to coastal cities. Before 2011 about 70% of Libyans depe…
$25B · Libyan state
Coop de l'eau 79 (irrigator cooperative), with state permitting · since 2022 · Region
The Deux-Sevres program comprises 16 winter-filled substitution reservoirs built by the Coop de l'eau 79, with approximately 70 percent public funding (total program cost figures around 76 million EUR circulate but are…
Approximately 70 percent public funding; circulating total cost figures around 76 million EUR are unverified