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    DEEP PIPE IRRIGATOR

    Nov 30, 2019 4 minutes

    OVERALL,Australia is a drought country and climate change seems to be making that worse if anything, so even when the rain comes we know that more dry conditions are just around the corner. It is with these gloomy thoughts that I started to research low cost, low tech irrigation techniques that were also water efficient. Here is one idea I found, that we are using now.

    DEEP PIPE IRRIGATION

    The basic point of deep pipe irrigation is that it gets water where it needs to be: direct to the roots of trees and shrubs. This has a number of benefits.

    You use less water – because you are getting the water to where

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