80,000 waterways in India aren’t usable because of pollution. That pollution stands in the way of a very necessary increase of food production. That’s why the Indian government has just announced $1 billion in funding to help clean the country’s waterways by 2017. The initiative will clean enough water to irrigate an additional 1.2 million acres of land.
India cleans waterways to increase food production
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