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Managing Ethiopia's Water Resources
04 Feb 2009 22:09:00 GMT
Source: International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Francesco Fiondella
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IRI's Paul Block describes his recent trip to Koraro, Ethiopia, where there is a cluster of 11 Millennium Villages. Block is working to improve agricultural water management in the area, which is one of the most impoverished in the country and suffers from very poor infrastructure and severe drought.

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