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Inter Press Service: No longer is the image of women trudging through fields carrying heavy water vessels on their heads just a "quaint" scene of Brazil's semiarid northeast, for outsiders.
In many parts of this impoverished region, it's also an increasingly rare sight for the locals, as it gradually becomes a thing of the past, thanks to a simple initiative that is spreading to other countries: the harvesting and storing of rainwater.
"Women used to have to walk six or eight kilometres carrying 20 litres of water......
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Brazilian Communities Find Ways to Live in Semiarid Environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 26th, 2010
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