Water cycle

globe. A planetary boundary for freshwater resources needs to secure water flows to regenerate precipitation, support terrestrial ecosystem functioning and services (such as carbon sequestration, biomass growth, food production, and biological diversity), and also ensure the availability of water for aquatic ecosystems.

New mulching methods are already being applied to reduce evaporation from soil surfaces, thereby making more water available for transpiration by the plants.

Water does not always seek the lowest ground, as evaporation and snow on a mountain clearly demonstrate.

But it should be understood that Alan never saw “the watercourse way” in human affairs as a flabby, irresponsible, lackadaisical manner of living. The stream does not merely move downhill. The water, all moisture, transpires from the earth, streams, rivers, the ocean, to the upper air, a “breathing out,” and then there is the “breathing in” when th

Holistic management focuses on the four ecosystem processes and our potential impact on them. Those processes are: the water cycle, the mineral cycle (which includes the carbon cycle), energy flow, and community dynamics (the complex set of relationships of biology within the ecosystem).

Water can function as an operating system, has a storage capacity, and it is constantly updating its system.