"'No one really intended this to happen, because farmers didn’t have the knowledge when they started pumping,' says Mohammad Shamsudduha, a geoscientist at University College London in the UK and one of the paper’s authors.
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Most of Bangladesh lies in the largest river delta on the planet, where the Rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra fan out into the Bay of Bengal. It’s an expanse of lush floodplains and emerald forests, blanketing some of the most fertile soil in the world."
~ Rahul Rao
"Farm pumps help Bangladesh avoid seasonal floods" | Popular Science
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