SOLID RAIN - ANOTHER MAD SCIENCE MARVEL?

The media have been gushing over this new invention designed to help agricultural fields affected by drought.  But nothing is said about possible long term adverse side effects on the soil biota or on the food harvested from  soils containing water-storing polymers or "Solid Rain".

 

SOLID RAIN is made of a polymer called potassium polyacrylate.  It is an absorbent material capable of soaking in liquids up to 500 times its size that can be added to the soil. The water absorbed by the polymer can be stored for up to a year without evaporating.  the water is then extracted by plant roots when they need it.  Farm plots showed up to 300 per cent increases in crop yield when Solid Rain was used. It is the creation of Mexican chemical engineer Sergio Jésus Rico Velasco.

Read more, see pictures and video here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2362006/Is-powdered-water-cure-drought-famine-Engineers-create-material-capable-storing-water-soil-YEAR.html 

Link to this post - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/07/solid-rain-another-mad-science-marvel.html 

SOLID RAIN's own website - http://solid-rain.com/