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Follow a rain drop from your yard to the ocean
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:17 pm
Story about the project/map
Just click where you live, or anywhere else, and it will show you the way.
River Runner Global
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Have you ever wondered how far raindrops travel after they fall upon the heights of Kilimanjaro? On the off chance you’re dying to know, some curious cartographers have created a mapping tool that visualizes the path a raindrop will take to the sea from anywhere on Earth.
River Runner Global is a free, open-source tool for visualizing how interconnected we are, and can be used quickly for rough-draft water management planning, or for educational purposes.
Data analyst Sam Learner built the project using data from the U.S. Geological Survey, along with help from Kyle Onda, a data architect for the water data and management consultancy Internet of Water.
“There’s something really interesting about ending up in little pockets of the country or world that you don’t know about at all, in interesting terrain,” Learner told Fast Company. “What we put in a river or stream ends up in someone else’s water.”
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There’s plenty of surprises following the path of a raindrop, for example all the water that feeds Washington D.C. comes from rainfall and upwelling springs on the western-side of the Appalachians, and before any snowmelt on Mount Everest can reach the Ganges, it has to flow eastward across the top of India for more than 300 kilometers to find a point where the Himalayas split.
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The tool is still in beta, and so place and river names often won’t appear. It’s subject to lag and occasional bugs as well, but Learner says the same back-end data could be used to create another tool, such as a ‘River Climber’ page that follows a path upriver to show the the source of what needs protecting.
Just click where you live, or anywhere else, and it will show you the way.
River Runner Global
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
How many pots have you smoked, baw?
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:24 pm to LegendInMyMind
I could jump in my boat and follow it to the gulf so I pretty much already know
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:25 pm to LegendInMyMind
Mine ended up in Germany
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:28 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Have you ever wondered how far raindrops travel after they fall upon the heights of Kilimanjaro?
No. Absolutely never.
This is really cool though.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:31 pm to Oates Mustache
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How many pots have you smoked, baw?
Not enough to trust my life to your weather knowledge.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:33 pm to haramba3
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Mine ended up in Germany
Great! Now, go get you some wienerschnitzel.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:33 pm to LegendInMyMind
OK.... Not sure how the rain drops in my yard are making a straight line to the Mississippi River and crossing over the levee. Hmmmmm
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:39 pm to LegendInMyMind
West Pearl, done and done. My watershed is simple.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:41 pm to LegendInMyMind
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frick you.
For real. Meet me at Sonic.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:41 pm to OweO
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For real. Meet me at Sonic.
You already have one fight lined up you useless piece of shite.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:45 pm to haramba3
I clicked on Iatt Lake,near Colfax.It showed Rigolette Bayou as Sam’s Bayou.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
I spent longer than I care to admit on there.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:46 pm to H2O Tiger
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I spent longer than I care to admit on there.
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H2O Tiger
Checks out.
It isn't perfect, but it is interesting.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:48 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Not enough to trust my life to your weather knowledge
Got damn it, touche.
Link was cool though
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:48 pm to LegendInMyMind
Ever wonder that in the history of humans, composed of 60% water, how many times someone bathed in or drank great, great, great, great grandpa?
Neither have I
Neither have I
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:50 pm to LegendInMyMind
Piss in Louisiana—> eventually drains to gulf—> Gulf Stream current—> Western Europe —> evaporates and forms storm cloud over foggy London Town—> water treatment plant—> my piss in some British chap’s teacup
Posted on 1/21/22 at 6:52 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:blessed
far raindrops travel after they fall upon the heights of Kilimanjaro?
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