irrigation using drip technology to deliver precise water application to crops. Producers who invest in a Dragon- Line system experience a 20 to 50 percent reduction in water use while maintaining yields. While Dragon-Line is headquartered in the heart of the Ogallala footprint, approximately 50 percent of its sales comes from Europe, the Mideast, Africa and Australia. Why? Because those areas are in the same boat as Iran. They are running out of water. The largest byproduct of oil and gas production is produced water, which is unusable waste water. According to the Oklahoma Water Resources Center (OWRC), for every barrel of oil produced, up to 10 barrels of produced water are generated, making it the largest liquid waste stream in
the United States. OWRC is collaborating on research with Oklahoma State University and other agencies to develop new technologies to treat produced water for irrigation and industrial uses. There was a popular saying in the old west,“Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.” Without water, nothing else matters. Every industry and every community depend on water. Water is a national security issue. The most powerful weapon in the world is water. It makes no difference how many weapons of mass destruction a country may possess, without water it will die of thirst. The greatest threat to any country is water bankruptcy. And if we fail to solve it, we will face our own Day Zero.
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