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Environmentalists in particular have decried dams and levees for confounding the continent's natural drainage system, and have made a case that coastal erosion-control structures are worthless or worse.

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Money began pouring in to help fund some of the world's most aggressive erosion-control programs.

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It seeks 265.1 billion ($2.4 billion) over five years to bury electric and telephone lines, remove ads around cultural treasures like Kyoto temples and cart away concrete erosion-control tetrapods from oceanfronts like the Ryoutsu-kou coast in Niigata prefecture.

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Whereas most other erosion-control plants are destroyed, the vetiver is all but unaffected.

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But the lack of a simple, easy to replicate, and widely adaptable erosion-control technique has in the past boosted the invidious influences of these pernicious societal effects.

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But Materne decided to give vetiver a try-it would be more of a survival test than an erosion-control experiment, he thought.

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The land at Banthra is almost flat, and Professor Kaul initially thought of vetiver not as an erosion-control barrier but as a potential commercial crop.

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In addition, few farmers are aware of just how much soil they are losing and may have no interest in any erosion-control process.

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Botswana In Botswana, vetiver (V. nigritana) is known to occur in the Okavango swamp area, but as of 1991 no erosion-control projects have been reported with either V. nigritana or the Indian species (V. zizanioides).

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It seems promising as a way for local people to involve themselves naturally in erosion-control activities-something that national planners have long dreamed of.

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