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Yale Environment 360: How will the world find the water to feed a growing population in an era of droughts and water shortages? The answer, a growing number of water experts are saying, is to forget big government-run irrigations projects with their mega-dams, giant canals, and often corrupt and indolent management. Farmers across the poor world, they say, are solving their water problems far more effectively with cheap Chinese-made pumps and other low-tech and off-the-shelf equipment. Researchers are concluding that......
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Beyond Big Dams: Turning to Grass Roots Solutions on Water
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Fred Pearce on September 13th, 2012
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