Interesting. Didn’t know any of that.
Glad you liked it. There was a different vid about this, more of the history of these projects, but this new one popped up in suggested vids a few days ago and it has current relevance.
Israel started trickle irrigation (even if they may not have invented it, they’ve been improving it) in the Negev. The gardens/fields would be worked up and hills heaped up to plant the seeds or seedlings.
The children would wear big hats in the sun and take an old can filled with water and give each plant a little drink. Once that was completed, they’d start again, it went on all day. This gave the plant just the right amount of water to thrive and leached the salts and whatnot out of the soil.
This was prior to 1947, btw.
The Negev looked so attractive that Farouk and then Nasser wanted to carve it out and annex it. That plan didn’t work out, but Egypt’s stooge armies only got their asses kicked a few times when they tried it.