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Costing the Earth

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Drainage and diversion have been the mainstay offenland farming but the cost is high - within a hundred years over 16 feet of soil has been lost to the winds.
Mark Whittaker asks whether the forces of water can ever be subjugated, be it in the low-tech flood plains of the Mekong or the pumped fields of East Anglia.
Producer Marie Helly

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Mark Whittaker
Producer:
Marie Helly
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