Can wireless broadband actually help conserve water?
It is in Georgia — thanks to The Nature Conservancy and its partners. Wireless broadband service introduced by the Conservancy and government agencies is helping to bridge a gap between farming and freshwater conservation in southwest Georgia — a region fraught with drought, intense pumping for irrigation, and a struggling economy. Farmers in the program use data transmitted across the network to fine-tune their irrigation — saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water every year. And now the network is being expanded to serve the region as a whole.
