The Third World and not only it continues to dream of returning to a pristine Edenic Nature, and escape from their impotence to catch up with modernity. Having rejected hard engineering, the try to build their drainage system by investing in soft "natural infrastructure"– natural areas such as forests or grasslands that can purify water, absorb floodwaters, and like a sponge soak up excess precipitation in the rainy season and release it months later during dry months. Peru is seriously rejecting "engineered infrastructure", and investing millions in premodern green technologies. Wasted money and wasted hopes.
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