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Surrounded by leaders, Fang Huai listened intently for half a day, and with some military merit value spent on obtaining information about water use, he finally discerned something.
This small county town, unlike places he had been before, had only two reservoirs in the entire county, and this was the larger one, shared by two counties.
Beyond that, he heard another term.
Accompanied by Flood and Drought.
It was a very strange phenomenon, yet it made sense.
As with last night, when the rainfall was too concentrated, it was bound to lead to insufficient subsequent rain, and the crops in the fields would not get enough water for irrigation in the right season, which was undoubtedly an additional burden for this impoverished region.
Once the weather turned dry, the water here became a vital source for irrigation and domestic water use for nearby farmland.
