TOO MUCH WATER, TOO LITTLE RAIN FOR FARMERS

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Wednesday, July 14, 1993

On one side of an earthen levee, a sea of unwanted water covers hundreds of acres of farmland; on the other side, machines pump water into the furrows of a field, providing much-needed moisture to a corn crop.

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