A Rivers Contrasts and Inequalities in the Arid Lands of Brazil

JUAZEIRO, Brazil, Jun 12 (IPS) - Osmir da Silva Rubez refuses to join the drip system, and is the only one among the 51 families living in the Mandacaru Public Irrigation Project in Juazeiro, a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the Northeast region of Brazil, to maintain the furrows that carry water to their crops.

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