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Water scarcity causes a lack of tradable agricultural products, resulting in insufficient income for farmers and hunger among consumers. Evidently, insufficient income and lack of food triggers either emigration or engagement in terrorism. Preventing this chain of causes and effects—particularly in semi-arid and arid countries—requires effective water supply for irrigation. To make irrigation water available, innovative methods of delivering water are required, even from unconventional sources such as atmospheric humidity. Ionization technology belongs to this category of innovative methods.
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Wilderer, P.A., Fluhrer, H., Davydova, E. (2018). Risking Weather Engineering: Fiction or Contribution to Conflict Prevention?. In: Wilderer, P., Renn, O., Grambow, M., Molls, M., Mainzer, K. (eds) Sustainable Risk Management. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66233-6_8
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