Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote [at 10:11 AM 8/20/2007] :
You can't blindly deploy them though - ICRISAT (www.icrisat.org) - a UN agency that deals with agriculture in semi arid tropics, and HQ'd Hyderabad, plus based in several countries, has an excellent paper that I googled up on what needs to be done: http://www.icrisat.org/ESA/Can_Drip_Irrigation.pdf
Here's another very interesting essay, from Karl Schroeder, better known for post-Singularity SF:
http://www.worldchanging.com/local/canada/archives/006936.html Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
