Profuse watering washes down the surface salts on fields. Water for this purpose is supplied generally by tube-wells sunk by the Government of West Pakistan with the assistance from the United States.
This field was reclaimed from salinity, but a part of it again went barren, which means that this plot contained more salts than the other parts of the field. The whole process of reclamation will have to be repeated now on this plot.
These two combined pictures provide a dramatic proof of the achievements of West Pakistan cooperation in combating water-logging and salinity in West Pakistan. The upper picture was taken in May, 1960 when the tube wells were just installed to...
This picture was taken in Gros Islet, St. Lucia (April 2010). It is a view of Pigeon island and shows the boat used for Pirates of the Caribbean. I was recently in the Eastern Caribbean for a Desk Trip.
This photo was taken in the summer of 2005 in Selenge sum (village) of Bulgan aimag (province) where I served as a Volunteer from 2002-2004. These colors in the sky are a very common sight during summer sunsets. My niece Bolormaa is standing on...