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Peru bores through Andes to water desert after century of dreams
2013-04-06 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here. Fresh water that now tumbles down the eastern flank of the Andes mountains to the Amazon basin and eventually the Atlantic Ocean will instead move west through the mountains to irrigate this patch of desert on Peru's coast. It will then drain into the Pacific Ocean. The Herculean...
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