Over the last half-century, population growth and competition between commercial and industrial users of water has resulted in poorer quality water resources. In many cases, irrigation waters are derived from effluent water, mixed with undesirable elements and waste. Where this occurs, soil is afflicted by excess alkalinity and an increase in sodic (excess sodium leading to poor drainage) and saline/sodic conditions. This trend has threatened agriculture in many regions of the world. These soil conditions lead to less productive croplands, impacting a whole cycle of the food chain from land to crop to livestock needs to consumer. For farmers, this causes extreme hardship and the potential for loss of livelihood and the resulting loss of food production to the economy. The challenges of farmers in the arid Southwest of the United States were the original proving grounds of Sweetwater’s technology.