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Harvesting Rainwater to Weather Drought in Northeast Argentina

2016-04-25 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: In a semiarid region in the northeast Argentine province of Chaco, small farmers have adopted a simple technique to ensure a steady water supply during times of drought: they harvest the rain and store it in tanks, as part of a climate change adaptation project. It's raining in Corzuela, a rural municipality of 10,000 inhabitants located 260 km from Resistencia, the provincial capital, and the muddy local roads are sometimes impassable. But it isn't always like this in this Argentine region...

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