For Immediate Release

Press release text for GCSAA Conference, Atlanta 2003

AQUAFLEX is a highly recommended tool to assist you with your water management. It helps you to optimize your irrigation scheduling to minimize water usage and maintain top quality turf.

Golf courses using the AQUAFLEX have reported huge water savings and improvement in quality of their turf.

"In my situation, by using the Aquaflex and monitoring my soil moisture levels, I have been able to cut back my watering schedule to the greens by 40%" - comments Darrin Spierings Golf Course Superintendent at NorthStone CC in North Carolina.

AQUAFLEX is a unique Sensor that continuously records both soil moisture and soil temperature and provides the Superintendent with valuable information about soil conditions in a concise and easy to understand format. Such monitoring has proven to yield substantial water savings. Moreover, it saves energy required to drive pumps.

Optimizing water application also minimizes leaching of fertilizers and chemicals as well as encourages root growth.

The AQUAFLEX Sensor is a 3 m (10') flexible tape that is laid in the root zone of the turf.

The AQUAFLEX Logging Sensor as displayed at the GCSAA Show has a built in data logger that makes it a completely self-contained unit that is easy to install and simple to operate. Considering the cost savings that are possible, payback time is very short.

The Sensor provides round-the-clock monitoring. Superintendents can choose to install stand-alone units or full multi-sensor systems with telemetry transmission of data back to a central computer.

"Soil moisture is critical on maintaining bentgrass in the Atlanta area during the summer months… . This is a terrific tool to better determine the ideal moisture of the soil to maintain firm, fast, and viable greens" - says Mark Hoban, Certified Superintendent at the Standard Club in Atlanta, Georgia Superintendent of the Year 2002.

AQUAFLEX is already being used successfully in leading European and US sports facilities as well as in agriculture and vineyards around the world.