• foggy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People historically commune near flood plains.

    Floods are a good thing for soil fertility. Not much else.

    Farms often are on land that is likely to see small amounts of flooding regularly.

    Farms feed people. People like to be fed.

    Also water is pretty crucial.

    Just slowly zoom into the Nile river somewhere well south of Egypt, and you’ll see there is more or less NOTHING that is not within 10 miles of the river.