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Switzerland's Gravity-Defying Irrigation Solution

• volta83 5y ago
  They are literally using gravity to move water from higher altitude to lower altitude. Whoever wrote “gravity defying” should go back to high school. This is just gravity at work.
  • zimbatm 5y ago
    It would have been cool if they were using osmosis to pull the water back up the mountains.
  • jdlshore 5y ago
    They’re “gravity defying” because they hang off the side of the mountain, and the people who installed them had to do so also. Don’t be so literal.
• throwawaysea 5y ago
  While somewhat interesting and beautiful due to the setting, this doesn’t seem particularly innovative. Basically they have built tiny aqueducts fo redirect water from mountains to fields that need irrigation.
• BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5y ago
  The Incas, many Himalayan and Hindu Kush peoples built similar irrigation systems.
• todd8 5y ago
  Nice pictures of cliffside irrigation sluiceways, but I was expecting to see an irrigation system that defies gravity by lifting water using a surprising method, perhaps a hydraulic ram based system. Hydraulic rams are solely water powered devices that can lift water to a level higher than the level of the input water source. See [1] and [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdyqTGx32A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdyqTGx32A