But modern drip irrigation uses underground computerized probes and long plastic tubes to slowly release water over long distances.
People sell everything here - vegetables, cooking oil packed in 50ml (yes 50ml) plastic tubes, sugar by the tablespoon - anything really.
He has proposed deploying a million plastic tubes, each about a hundred metres long, to roil the water, which would help it trap more CO2.
This uses a motorized pump to push water through long black plastic tubes that are laid out in rows along the base of the plants.
The bullish argument has it that the Chinese will find materials cheaper, even if only marginally, and will hence buy more of them: no more substituting plastic tubes for copper ones.
You'll also have small, plastic drainage tubes under your skin near your incision to help drain any fluids that accumulate.
Just off the M8 at Newhouse, there's a shiny newish building packed to the steel rafters with tiny glass tubes in plastic trays.
The ends of the tubes are connected to a small, plastic bulb.
Next up, you'll be pulling the plastic filaments up from the spools, through two tubes and into holes at the top of the Stepstruder's head, holding it there for a few seconds, until the device's motor begins tugging at the strip.
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Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa has a legion of devoted followers, many of whom turn up early (the place opens at 7.45 p.m. and closes at 11 a.m.) and sit patiently at plastic-covered tables, waiting for the management to shed light on matters by switching on the fluorescent tubes overhead.
The tubes are stacked along the sides of the large conveyor-style robot that packages them into separate plastic pouches.
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