In Wyoming, anyone who does not use his irrigation water for five years risks losing it.
This is high-tech stuff that involves not just drip irrigation and condensation-trapping greenhouses, but remote sensing by satellites which provide ET readings for areas of 30 by 30 metres.
The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.
But there simply isn't enough water - the irrigation canals have not been repaired, the canals remain dry.
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Kachelo says that he is learning how to employ overhead sprinklers to help conserve water but that most irrigation methods have not been updated since the British ruled Pakistan.
In particular, Croft picks Valmont Industries (VMI) as an investment vehicle not just for its farm irrigation system but for its mechanized irrigation equipment that is portable and conveniently transportable.
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Seed varieties suited to Africa's difficult conditions where crops are watered by intermittent rains, not by a reliable system of irrigation were invented.
"The ministry of agriculture is supposed to aid in having farmers learn and implement new irrigation methods but has not been very helpful, " he said.
We have had just enough rain not to have to turn on any irrigation systems but yet everything is still fairly firm.
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Peterson and his partner had to invest in expensive shade cloth to protect their yield, not to mention the costs of constant irrigation.
Wine producers in the Colchagua valley say that damage to irrigation systems meant that some fields could not be watered for up to two weeks after the earthquake.
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Never mind that the water at issue did not run across any state borders and that the irrigation wells at issue have no connection to any drinking water supply.
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Expanding rural road networks (in addition to investing in electrification and irrigation) is a strategic investment for rural development and should not be judged against narrowly defined economic criteria.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
The ADB's figure for farming is not much higher, with only about 6% of Africa's cultivated land under irrigation.
Mr Khan says that the effect has not only been to wipe out this year's crops, but because of damage to the irrigation network, next season's crops will be lost too.
Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.
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