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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19

HARE Irrigation Project: An Engineering Archive Returns to the Map

harewater.org ↗ · Oddly Specific · score 82.0
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A digital archive preserving a 1995 irrigation study near Arba Minch, Ethiopia, alongside the careers of its four engineers and a planned modern hydrology and GIS reassessment.

Why it surfaced

HARE connects an original engineering report to watershed boundaries, DEMs, drainage maps, canals, and updated technical interpretation. Its unusual subject and human scale—one project, four engineers, and a professional legacy spanning decades—make it feel more like a living technical archive than a standard project page.

The Song Resumes After the Story

August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.