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Myanmar Seeks to Break Vicious Circle of Flood and Drought
2016-05-22 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: It has been two weeks now since the village of Htita, with its few bamboo houses hemmed in by parched, cracked earth and dried-out ponds, has enjoyed the novelty of its first ever water well. Young housewife Lei Lei Win walks to the noise of breaking soil to fill two yellow containers previously used for cooking oil. With the weight of the 20-litre "buckets' balanced on a pole on her shoulder, it now takes her only one minute to provide her family with the water that she will need to get washed,...
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