A farmer dressed to face police tear gas poses during a protest march en route to the Indian capital, New Dehli, last month. The protesting farmers were finally allowed into the capital on March 14.
"At the moment, we are growing rice in places that we shouldn't grow rice in, and it's depleting the water table," she toldThe government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi guarantees a minimum purchase price for rice and wheat. This system, which was introduced in the 1960s, protects the two crops from market fluctuations.
"If your neighbour is digging 300 feet into the ground and they start pumping, then that also impacts your access to groundwater. So you have to dig even deeper." This latest protest comes three years after tens of thousands of farmers camped outside New Delhi for months, eventually forcing the Modi government to repeal three agricultural reform laws.
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"It was quite acceptable not that long ago to dump the snow right into rivers and right into the bay."The Moncton project has been underway since 2015, when local officials were concerned that run-off from snow being trucked to the Berry Mills dump site from different parts of the city would flow into an adjacent brook.
If salt enters a freshwater system, Campbell said, it can be fairly toxic to fish and other species living there.