Raining Food

 An essential part of human civilization had been their ability to channel weather and make it take course as required by man. This however had limitations.

It was limited to water already on the surface of earth and it could only go from higher elevation to lower. As men were able to make this process more complicated- raising dams, lifting water and creating long canals and pipes to transfer water to the required fields, humans were able to spread out into areas further away from sources of water. Large parts were still devoid of this.

Wavap was a startup that was trying to change this. A century after technology offering software as a service, we had the dawn of nature as a service. 

Their idea- book a slot when, how much and where you want it to rain. The drone systems then will go to the closest source of water. Evaporate water and collect it in a container of nanomaterial. Transport it to the location required. And then just squeeze the container to make it rain. Vaporised water is lighter and thus easier to transport than liquid water. They can then take the designated drone lanes through the air route and deliver!

Combined with long rows of vertical farms and controlled environments of new age green houses, this had combined world's deserts into worlds food baskets. Especially ones besides large oceans like Eastern Sahara and Kalahari.

Time is 2070, the place is earth. Malthusian ideas of a world running out of food has proven to be strangely inadequate. Men had continued to find new ways to make earth more productive and expand the concepts of productive land.

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