There is effective land management you can do like planting certain trees in an area so their roots secure the soil better to prevent landslides to having underground tunnels like in Tokyo to prevent floods.
This stuff like cloud seeding, seems like on too big a scale that it's hard to control all possible negative consequences.
I was gonna reply with this to the other comment, but given that this is Indo, and the rampant levels of corruption and graft there, I would be entirely unsurprised if they just claimed "we'll do cloud seeding lol", and then expropriated the funds, without actually doing anything of substance...
Because it would be very hard for the public, especially in poor regions of Sumatra, to prove one way or the other, or to even know if the cloud seeding is actually taking place, I would imagine...
Versus something like building dams, or planting trees, or any other sort of flood prevention, as you say...
There is effective land management you can do like planting certain trees in an area so their roots secure the soil better to prevent landslides to having underground tunnels like in Tokyo to prevent floods.
This stuff like cloud seeding, seems like on too big a scale that it's hard to control all possible negative consequences.
I was gonna reply with this to the other comment, but given that this is Indo, and the rampant levels of corruption and graft there, I would be entirely unsurprised if they just claimed "we'll do cloud seeding lol", and then expropriated the funds, without actually doing anything of substance...
Because it would be very hard for the public, especially in poor regions of Sumatra, to prove one way or the other, or to even know if the cloud seeding is actually taking place, I would imagine...
Versus something like building dams, or planting trees, or any other sort of flood prevention, as you say...
I mean, the UK exists, it's VERY easy to siphon money away from infrastructure projects with NO infrastructure to show for it.
Look at their HS2 project..