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Miracle water in the dessert.
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Vineyard workers pop a premium wine grapevine out of its package and plant it in the soil of Sonoma County, California. Then they plant a package of water right alongside. It’s DRiWATER.
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James Walker of Buchanan Vineyard Services, Inc. says, “This allows us to put the plant in with the water supply it needs for a growing season. We can plant it and walk away.”
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Like a slowly melting icicle, the package of jelled water will release moisture to the plant for two to three months.
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Harold Jensen is the inventor. “Every night and every weekend, my two daughters and my wife would come over, and my two daughters and I had four blenders going, and we made many thousand cups of DRiWATER.”
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Finally, they hit on the right formula.
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Harold Jensen says, “This is ready to put in the soil, next to the root ball of a plant. I’ll show you what the product is. It’s 97.85% water, 2% vegetable gum, and 0.15% aluminium sulphate.”
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He’s patented the idea. Once in the ground, bacteria eat away at the jell, releasing the water.
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James Walker’s vineyard service will put ten thousand packages of DRiWATER into the ground with new vines in Sonoma County.
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Using jelled, bottled water to grow new vines in a vineyard, is one thing. But it’s quite another to attempt to grow a whole forest in a desert. That’s what they’re trying to do in Egypt.
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Egyptians planted two million trees around a new town in the Sahara Desert. Each tree survives on just two quarts of DRiWATER for months at a time until their roots reach ground water.
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Creating forests is the reason Jensen invented DRiWATER.
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“When I drive out in the desert, among two million little trees, it’s pretty awesome.”
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All you need are seedlings, a desert, and a little DRiWATER.
From a news story by
CNN San Francisco Reporter Don Knapp
August 2004
