If the tide is high and the ocean stormy, waves roll into the springs.

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Even in India, where some four-fifths of the population still live in the countryside and where Gandhian suspicion of consumerism runs high, the rising tide is improving lives.

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"This is different from the first high tide of space exploration, " he says.

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At high tide each day much of the town is now underwater.

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Every day at high tide a 5-foot sea wall surrounding the reinforced home is buffeted by waves.

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