Bamboo is highly used in soil irrigation. It is tubular, allowing water trasportation. Damir Kovac made a study about it in "A Bamboo Irrigation System in West Sumatra", of 1997.

Bamboo is also used in bio remediation of poluted environments. According to specialists at West Wind Technologies, at United States of America pig farms throw animal waste directly in nature, contaminating fields and water sources. A solution to this problem would be throwing the waste at grass fields, that would take all the nitrogen of the waste. But grass does not have commercial value and is left on the ground . With time nitrogen is absorbed by the soil. Bamboo is a grass, and takes up large amounts of nitrogen. Then it could be collected ansd sold as construction material, carrying the nitrogen.

Another bamboo bio remediation use was suggested in 98 by the american senator Duncan Hunter, of the World Emergency Relief Foundation, to clean Choluteca River, that cross Mexico City. The project propose bamboo planting at the river banks, thus acting as cleaning agent. A similar project was already implemented at Rio Nuevo, in Califórnia, and at north of Mexicali, another mexican city.