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Rural India looks to past & present to meet growing water needs
2014-04-23 05:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Farmers in rural India are adopting a combination of centuries-old water storage methods and modern irrigation techniques to adapt to increasingly dry conditions. With funding from international donors, the government of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh is renovating thousands of medieval water ponds, and training farmers to use carefully targeted drip irrigation instead of flooding their fields with water. One of the converts to this mix of old and new methods is 80-year-old rice farmer...
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