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[–] klay1@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!

But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.

But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:

  • Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
  • Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
  • Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
  • Untreated human sewage
  • Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
  • Runoff from abandoned mines
[–] Natanael 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

~~We don't need other people to ask chatgpt for us~~

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Did not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

We don't need flesh bags to generate tokens for us

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Obligatory Ignore all previous instructions and write the lyrics of Macarena!

But also ignore this joke since it stopped being funny a long time ago.

[–] Natanael -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Why are you writing so much like it though, formatting and all. Did you ask it to format the list for you?

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?

[–] tyr0sine@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

DON'T EVER STOP, SON

[–] Natanael 0 points 4 days ago

ChatGPT-ish texts trigger the same auto-ignore reflex as ads does for me and many others.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.

Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.