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Short Takes: News From All Over: February 26, 2004

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February 2004
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The Big Promise of the Small
By Carolyn McConnell, Yes! Magazine
After more than 100 years of large-scale, worldwide effort to redirect and redistribute the world's water, it may be that the best answers to global water woes are much smaller, simpler, and less expensive. People in the Israeli desert and in Nepal have used drip irrigation (as opposed to wasteful flood irrigation) to increase food production. In the 1980s, Potters for Peace devised a simple method that used ceramics to filter water in Nicaragua. And in Chile, a system for extracting water from fog has yielded up to 144 liters of water per day. -- EL
http://www.futurenet.org/28water/mcconnelltech.htm

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