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Irrigation an irritation as Indians, Nepalis cope with monsoon season

August 21, 2008


GUWAHATI, India - This year’s monsoon season in northeastern India and Nepal brings intense flooding, submerging at least one hundred villages and displacing thousands. While the rains irrigate at least 60 percent of India’s agricultural land, they also leave in their path a wake of destruction. In the past month, Reuters reports that over 200 people in India have died.

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Posted by Sarah Haughn · Filed Under Climate, Environment, South Asia, World 

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  1. OPINION: Not a ‘natural’ disaster | Circle of Blue | WaterNews on August 28th, 2008 3:44 pm

    […] DELHI - The floods India and Nepal have suffered this season need not have wrought such havoc, an editorial in […]

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