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Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan
Building Lagoons to Harvest Rainwater
In her community of Quispillacta in Peru, engineer Magadalena Machaca Mendieta explains how she has built lagoons to store rainwater during the dry season to help farmers and residents in the Ayacucho region.
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