Ok everyone over the years I've been tracking down some of the anime and cartoons I used to watch as a kid and I've found most of then but there's one that I can't find and it's been bugging me it's about this boy finds a talking staff with like an round eye on the end it's like a key to ancient tech I don't remember much more then that other then at the end he becomes like the owner of a lot of barren land and used the staff and releases water flood gates to restore it ps it's not mar lol
That's the problem can't remember much more I think water was a limited gangs where after the talking staff because it was the key to control the different tech but that's all I Remember. I think it aired sometime in the early 2000s
Have you tried the animenewsnetwork identity anime thread? There used to be some serious anime historians patrolling that thread.
Don't know the anime, but you could look it up here: https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/2000/winter season by season