Foreword

A long, long time ago, some smart people understood that distributing water from a centralized place would provide more control and be faster. This was the beginning of irrigation, a more organized and effective way to bring water to plants.

Fast-forward a few thousand years, and some other smart people invented even more advanced ways to irrigate hundreds of millions of acres around the globe. Let’s say you own a plantation with multiple crops: coffee (of course!), corn, and soya—each of those plants require a different amount of water and a different amount of fertilizers. Without irrigation, it would be impossible to create and maintain a constant and precise flow of those two essential resources (and others) to your crops in an effective ...

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