Millions of Farmers “Replumb” World’s Largest Delta

ENN
Sep 20, 2022, 7:25 pm150 pts
Collective groundwater pumping by millions of farmers in Bangladesh has created vast natural reservoirs underground that rival the world’s largest dams, sustaining irrigation that has transformed this previously famine-prone country to a food-secure nation, finds a new UCL study.

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