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Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: boosting water security

India Workers dig water retention trenches

Sagar, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Basant Ahirwar worked as an expert mason in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state before the country’s coronavirus lockdown shut down business and forced him to return, jobless and largely on foot, to his home in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. Now, however, he has found new work: Digging water capture pits […]