But its samples were collected in July, in the low season for tourism and at the start of the monsoon when rain would help to purify the water.

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During the monsoon, when the plains around the river and its tributaries flood, the habitat for fish suddenly increases by as much as ten times.

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Perhaps tempers will ease when the monsoon reaches Delhi next month.

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Kevin Rudd, project manager for the Tombstone pipeline, said the repaired pipeline needs to be shored up or it surely will be washed away when the monsoon rains return next month.

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The diving is phenomenal year-round, but the crossing to the reef can be rough in the peak rainy season (July to September) and from December to February when the northeast monsoon winds are at their strongest.

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There are Koreans who can still remember when this country was little more than rice paddies and villages that would flood during monsoon season.

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