It s just a matter of time before people accept it. More recently, the group bought a Piper Comanche airplane and soon will have a second plane. We just have to learn to drill up. The agency helps cities and counties, organizations, and individuals in the design and implementation of cloud-seeding programs. The drought of the 1990s focused more attention on weather modification as a way of capturing atmospheric water resources.
Weather modification is one of the ways being examined.
But Bomar points out it is hardly a new approach. Cloud seeding has been practiced in parts of the state almost continuously for more than 28 years. Take, for example, the ongoing cloud-seeding project of the Colorado River Municipal Water District, based in Big Spring, which is one of the world s oldest weather modification programs. The district with its own meteorologist, radar system, and twin-engine plane has run the program since 1971. There have been more than two dozen organized efforts at weather modification the last 25 years.