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INDIA is a land of many problems, and not the least difficult and perplexing is that of irrigation. The meteorological conditions vary there more than anywhere else in the world,” within an equivalent area. The country contains alike the locality (Cherrapunji) with the greatest recorded average annual rainfall (460 inches) and arid tracts where rain is practically unknown. More troublesome than these extremes is the general irregularity of the incidence of precipitation, its unequal distribution, its capricious periodicity, its liability to entire failure. Drought and famine are ugly visitants to a country, but they are only too familiar to the unfortunate inhabitants of the land of the Moguls.
Triennial Review of Irrigation in India, 1918–1921.
Public Works Department of the Government of India. Pp. v + 222. (Calcutta: Government Printing Office.) 5 rupees.
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CUNNINGHAM, B. Triennial Review of Irrigation in India, 1918–1921. Nature 111, 388–389 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111388a0
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