We work in low rainfall drought-prone areas and host to the largest number of poor and high on farmer suicides. Our intervention model is based on decades of our collective experience of rain-fed based farming systems and livelihoods: Water is central to successful farming while groundwater is scarce and in high volatility on availability in seasons and in years. We are witness to thousands of high-value fruit-bearing trees at the peak age of their economic value cut down or dying due to a shortage of water. Many farmers spend huge money to save these trees with fetched water in tankers, only to see them die in the next year. This is despite farmers using the “state of the art” water-efficient drip irrigation systems that come with handsome govt. subsidy. Along with farmers, we defined the utopian “ideal irrigation architecture suited to horticulture and forestry in low rainfall, water scarce areas”. Then we worked together to develop the technology which went through multiple iterations but delivered on every aspect of the criteria laid down in the definition. This system of irrigation is named “System of Water for Agriculture Rejuvenation” (SWAR) and field validated their value in multiple fruit, vegetable, flower and forestry species in different soil types and climatic conditions. Simply put, SWAR is an irrigation system of measured moisture at plant root zone coupled with fostering a regime of soil microbe multiplication and diversity eco- system that drastically reduces plant water need compared to drip while improving soil health and its ability to use the water most efficiently.