The BBC page also links to the intricate and fairly ancient irrigation system used in the Swiss mountain region of Valais. Legend has it that when God created

The BBC page also links to the intricate and fairly ancient irrigation system used in the Swiss mountain region of Valais. Legend has it that when God created the Valais, he asked the local farmers whether they wanted rain, or whether they would take care of their own irrigation. After a brief consultation, they announced that, with all due respect, irrigation was too serious a matter to entrust to a bloody foreigner…