DELTA a lifeline to irrigation property 

Making something useless valuable again... 

Stephen Way remembers how good it felt to walk through a two-metre high canola crop at Whittier Park last year. It was an experiment, a triumph and a sign that technology from company DELTAwater solutions had swiftly worked a minor miracle at the Deniliquin district property he manages.

Poor quality bore water that killed a lucerne crop a year earlier had turned to quality water with the help of a 300mm DELTA Magnetic Water Conditioner ? growing a high-yielding canola crop in the same dirt 12 months later.

"We put in about 400 acres of irrigated canola and that paddock, the one that killed the lucerne the season before, was probably the best paddock of canola we had,'' Stephen says.

"The technology must work or all the canola we planted last year would have died. It's definitely chucked us a big lifeline. And the crops we're growing again this year are excellent so it's made something that was basically useless valuable again.''

Stephen says he turned to NSW-based DELTAwater solutions, a firm focussed on improving water quality with powerful magnets, after watching a neighbour reap the rewards using its technology.

"I jumped the fence and got the company's number off their unit,'' he admits.

"Our land was becoming obsolete because of the build-up of salt in the soil and growing sodium problems.''

The long-lasting drought has bitten deeply into the farm's channel run. Stephen sunk a bore in 1993 to ensure supply for sheep and to irrigate crops. "But we were doing that much damage using the bore that we had to limit its use for the past five or six years. It was just destroying the country,'' he says.

The 300mm DELTA Magnetic Water Conditioner was fitted to Whittier Park's bore early last year and strong yield and oil content across the canola crop followed. And it's a healthy scene across the paddocks so far this year. The crops and stock are looking good and so is the future.

"In the years of drought I very much doubt that if the DELTA Magnetic Water Conditioner wasn't working whether we'd even be here,'' Stephen says.

It's not just Deniliquin district farmers who are keen to find out more about the company's technology and its positive results on the ground. It's also catching NSW Government officials' attention. DELTAwater solutions owner Alex Panov says NSW's Department of Primary Industries is considering running trials to investigate the system's ability to lower salt levels.

• DELTA technology works on a philosophy of adaptation. DELTA Magnetic Water Conditioners change the molecular structure of saline water. While not reducing salinity levels, they allow water to be more accessible to plants and reduce the potential for plant damage.
• Magnetic water treatment is environmentally friendly, pollution and maintenance free, incurs no chemical, maintenance or energy costs and has a service life of more than 25 years. All DELTA products have a 100% money back guarantee.