Spanish Farmers Modernize Water Control

url (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/02/ap3981640.html)

By 2010, the Spain's "Fenacore", a federation of irrigators, wanted to modernize its irrigation system by connecting 500,000 farmers to an irrigation network outside of Madrid. It has been numerous years of drought and water use, and that's what the Spain wanted to modernize at that time. I am amazed by the number of farmers that are needed to be linked to a certain irrigation network and how they had to change their farming methods since the 13th century by using highly efficient techonology to control irrigation. So the computerized irrigations would be monitored and controlled by the computer, by measuring how much enters each channel. As a result, the article concluded that the Fenacore will save up to 20% water savings using the computerized irrigation. I am wondering how will the farmers feel--will they feel easygoing working in the computerized irrigation systems or will they feel that they will have a difficult time working with modernized water control? Do you suppose the farmers' labors aren't worth doing even if they utilize the modernized technology? Will that have an effect in determining the value of water? This issue reminded me of the lecture based on labor as commodity and how skilled labor is worth three times as much as unskilled labor and how the value of commodity is determined b amount of socially necessary labor used in production and how long it takes to produce a commodity.