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Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal

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The Benefits of Removing Aquatic Vegetation From Access Points

The community will go to these water access points predominantly to get water for washing their clothes, for irrigation, for cooking purposes. By removing all this dense submerged aquatic vegetation, it's much easier for them to put their buckets in and swim. And the gains didn't end there. A lot of the nutrients running off the landscape were being captured by this aquatic vegetation. So we tried to convert this public nuisance into a private resource.

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