Field guide No. 1402

Flooded rice terraces step down a hillside, with water jetting upward from each lower paddy into the one above. The fields are watering themselves uphill.

Upward waterfalls in rice terraces

Irrigation, in reverse

Flooded rice terraces step down a hillside, with water jetting upward from each lower paddy into the one above. The fields are watering themselves uphill.

Field notePaddies pump water upward in arcs into the terrace above, so the hill fills from the bottom.

Specimen
No. 1402
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
flooded rice terraces on a green hillside
Nearest existing relative
a garden fountain
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics