We have much cleverer irrigation.

Another machine pumps water for irrigation.

Let's say it's the irrigation ditch again.

But drip irrigation isn't the only innovation.

Turns out that it's a failed irrigation project.

So that would produce irrigation for the entire village?

Irrigation is the biggest use of water on the planet.

Many farms use water pumped from underground aquifers for irrigation.

So this life price is for an irrigation non profit director.

We've literally consumed an entire river in North America for irrigation.

How will they tell us about the next irrigation or currency?

Irrigation encourages the growth of stem rust fungi like UG 99

I want to share one story about an innovation called drip irrigation.

let's say I lend it to someone who has an irrigation project.

You're going to be able to power stuff, so irrigation makes a difference.

Inventing irrigation, developing systems of exchange, creating new and much easier modes of survival.

Yeah, I want to build another one to pump water and irrigation for crops.

Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.

There's irrigation in the valley, and there's always a little runoff after they do that.

It had no clients, nobody would buy the electricity there, nobody was interested in irrigation projects.

At the same time Amitabha was obsessed with this drip irrigation technology that had been invented in Israel.

Secondarily, we wanted to see if we could export this drip irrigation and bring it into other countries.

Additionally, The use of irrigation and fertilisers can lead to salinisation the accumulation of salt in the soil.

I asked Dr. Sono if he would take me to see some of the drip irrigation in the Thar Desert.

Yes the climate in Montana is getting warmer and drier, but Montana agriculture depends especially on irrigation from the snow pack, and as the snow is melting for example, as the glaciers in Glacier National Park are disappearing that's bad news for Montana irrigation agriculture.

Irrigation starts to make you be allowed to plant stuff where you want it, as opposed to where the rivers flood.

You know, someone has a great idea to build an irrigation canal, so that more fields become usable and get access to water.

We need to invest in real solutions incentives for farmers, precision agriculture, new crop varieties, drip irrigation, gray water recycling, better tillage practices, smarter diets.

And I said, boy, what a waste, because there are actually good projects out there that people could maybe irrigation ditches, factories, a tool factory, anything else.

So as long as this factory does generate wealth, or this irrigation ditch does generate wealth, then the money supply did not grow faster than the amount of wealth out there.

These projects I say, well if I only had some way of convincing someone to dig a canal, it would be hugely beneficial and it will create wealth or dig irrigation ditches.

So if this 900 gold pieces that were used to build this irrigation ditch or whatever it is, if that project actually does generate at least 900 gold pieces of future wealth

Now let's say that after this irrigation ditch was produced, instead of 1,000 apples, we go from being able to produce 1,000 apples to being able to produce 2,000 apples a year.

What he did was see what was happening in Israel, larger approaches, and figure out how to do a drip irrigation, which is a way of bringing water directly to the plant stock.

Well, these loans I'm hopefully putting them to build irrigation ditches or build factories or do whatever, something that actually is an investment, that creates more value than it needed to start up.

The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a quarter acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.

And there is an automatic irrigation system that makes sure that this sort of landscape of gardens, in one or two years it will sort of transform into a Cambodian temple ruin, completely covered in green.

And then I will use both of those concepts to redo that lending that we did with the irrigation ditches and the factory to show you that the gold actually never even has to leave the bank.

I could give these coins to these people, they would dig the irrigation ditch and then I could charge people the service of using my or maybe I'll charge people access to water and then I could essentially generate a return.

He's going to take that 900 gold pieces and pay a bunch of people, who are probably not doing anything anymore because the apple crop has been harvested and sold, and they're going to build an irrigation canal so that more land is usable to make more apples the next year. soon.

Well, interestingly, and based on my work and others in Africa, for example, we've shown that even the most vulnerable small scale rainfall farming systems, with innovations and supplementary irrigation to bridge dry spells and droughts, sustainable sanitation systems to close the loop on nutrients from toilets back to farmers' fields, and innovations in tillage systems, we can triple, quadruple, yield levels on current land.