Tokyo aims to make practical use of artificial rain technology

I said they were trying to control the weather in this country years ago. I was called a conspiracy theorist. Right again!

If you get excess flood water in the winter and drought in the summer, the fix is hardly rocket science.

Instead of this Laputan waste of cash, just start work on desalination plants, many more reservoirs and a national water grid.

Supplying water in dry areas isn't exactly new. A quarter of the planet have been doing it for centuries. The Romans were experts at it.

Here's a funny thought. Stop cutting down all the trees in Tokyo! Every summer the Japanese Government cuts down many trees and trims them to nothing so that there is no shade at all. Trees help to cool and is a cause of more rain fluctuations.

Spot on, but this is modern Japan. Japan's nuke plants are near the sea, when there is low power demand use the excess to power desalination. When the plants are working of course...

The Romans were experts at it.

Power generated by any type of power station, regardless of the fuel type, put the electricity into the grid system. Nuclear power plants need 4-5 incoming power supplies for them to work and operate safely.

You can't just divert power from a nuclear station to a desalination plant.

Most parts of Japan do not have a water shortage problem. Kyushu mostly.

In Tokyo, there is an enormous cavern for collecting typhoon water.

Rainwater is potable if properly filtered.

I enjoy a glass of cool rainwater on hot, humid days.

It is a method of weather modification that experts admit has limited effectiveness and almost no practical application today. Nevertheless, the metropolitan government has three more generators at sites on the west side of the dam in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Once again the Tokyo government insist on investing public money going against the recommendations of the experts.

"Artificial rain generators alone cannot solve water shortages," the metropolitan government official said. "But just the fact of operating them implicitly conveys the seriousness of a situation to citizens and is a way of asking for their cooperation in restricting their water intake."

Why not then invest the money on proved measures that can help with the cooperation of the public? just making an empty appeal by using a very ineffective technology seems to give the message of being wasteful on purpose, which would go completely against what it is supposed to be done.

@Wobot

People gather together to make the best use of shared, limited resources and access to services, particularly medical and educational ones. The bucolic rural idyll favoured by poets is a fantasy. You have to drive everywhere, there is no public transport and obtaining a carer is next to impossible.

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/crumbling-infrastructure-rapidly-rendering-rural-communities-unlivable

We get ground water,we have a 30 miles man made lake,we do not use as a water supply

In the wrong hands, this technology could be weaponized, if it isn't already.

Beware.