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Augustus Doricko

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Really, the majority of our business is going to be in the Western United States, the Middle East because it's dry, and then Latin America because it's dry and fairly deregulated.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Southern Latin America.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

No, no, we're making water.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So the state of Utah, I might be a little bit more conservative than this, but the state of Utah Department of Natural Resources measured that we produced 186,000 acre feet of water in the state this past year.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

It's about 6% of all the water that's consumed by the state of Utah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

And that's all in the form of snowpack that melts and runs off into these cities' watersheds.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

There's no water.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

It's all of the above.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So yeah, the aquifers are running out, the farms.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

The states actually pay to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

And then at the federal level, hundreds of millions.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

They pay farmers not to farm.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

They pay them not to farm because they don't want them to use the water.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

No kidding.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So what we've provided as an option for them is a way to make more water so that the farmers can keep farming and you still have enough water.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So it's a win-win there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

And then in Utah in particular,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

The Great Salt Lake is depleting every year.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

And as that body of water gets smaller and smaller, all of the arsenic at the bottom of it gets kicked up.