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Posted: Monday, 18 May 2009 9:34AM
Wis. creek cleaned up, hopes for same in India
John Cody Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780
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CHICAGO (WBBM) - An author and environmental entrepreneur is applying lessons learned from a little Wisconsin stream to hundreds of miles of muddy drainage ditches in Western India where there's insufficient water for people and farms.
Steven Apfelbaum, author of Nature's Second Chance, says when he bought the 70 acres around Spring Creek in Wis., the water ran muddy, intermittent and toxic.
He says after years of shagging off cattle and planting native grasses up to the stream's edge, the water now runs clear, cold and fine to drink year around.
As founder of Applied Ecological Services in Brodhead, Wis., Apfelbaum says a client has asked if he can help restore the water supply to thousands of acres in the state of Gujerat in western India.
He says years of neglect has left the soil barren, unable to hold moisture. So the run-off just washes into the ocean taking with it the earth that could be growing crops.
Apfelbaum says he hopes the same techniques that reclaimed Spring Creek in Wisconsin will be able to restore the water table for people and farms in Western India.
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