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Shadouf

Most irrigation in the Nile Valley is done by gas-powered or diesel-powered pumps nowadays -- but every so often we saw someone using a shadouf. This ancient irrigation technique is a bucket on a long, counter-weighted arm that the farmer swings down into the water and over to the field.

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