कोशी की जीवन रेखा — मानसी सहरसा रेलखंड - Prabhat Sharan

Story on 2006 floods in Barmer
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Where floodwaters refuse to go away
Water has been both agony and ecstasy for the residents of the Thar, the most populated desert in the world. From a situation when children of school-going age used to get scared at the shower of a few water drops from the sky what the rest of the world calls rain...
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the area had too much of a good thing this season.
And the worst parts of it is that the floodwaters got collected in the villages of Barmer in an area of 245 sq km on August 24 (Indian Space Research Organisation estimates), are refusing to go away. The apparently sandy terrain has several hundreds of feet deep layers of gypsum beneath it.
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