It was difficult for upland crops to grow on the saline-alkali soil in the coastal plain and Liaohe river regions.

在沿海平原和辽河流域盐碱土上很难种植旱地作物。

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He set up free primary and secondary schools all over India, had another free hospital built at Bangalore, and paid for drinking water to be piped from the Krishna river to Chennai and from the Godavari river to upland Andhra Pradesh.

ECONOMIST: Sai Baba

But thanks to wholesale abuse of the Colorado river, the theft of water from upland California and massive federal subsidies, it is blooming.

ECONOMIST: Water