Plans are currently being modeled by the UAE to build a mountain and seed clouds above it in order to tackle an acute water shortage. This isn't necessarily geoengineering (extreme weather modification maybe), but the thinking behind it mirrors the wrong approach...
Cloud Seeding
China sets 2020 “artificial weather” target to combat water shortages
BEIJING, Jan 13 (Reuters) - China aims to induce more than 60 billion cubic metres of additional rain each year by 2020, using an "artificial weather" programme to fight chronic water shortages, the government said on Monday. China's water resources are among the...
Ex-researcher Says US Seeded Clouds over Cuba
LOS ANGELES (UPI) – The United States secretly used cloud seeding to dry up the Cuban sugar crop in 1969 and 1970, Lowell Ponte, a former Pentagon think tank researcher, said yesterday. Ponte, a former specialist for the International Research and Technology Corp.,...