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Convincing water to attend your party instead of the river's.
means To deliberately supply water to land or crops through channels, pipes, or sprinklers.
from From Latin irrigare, to flood or moisten, joining in- (into) with rigare (to water) — the same root that waters rain itself.
Ancient techMesopotamian canals fed farms over 6,000 years ago.
Medical hijackDoctors irrigate wounds, flushing them clean with fluid.
Thirsty planetIrrigation drinks roughly 70 percent of human freshwater use.