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17 MARCH 2014 - LAM LUK KA, PATHUM THANI, THAILAND: A farmer tries to start the irrigation pump in his rice field in Pathum Thani. She said the drought in central Thailand would cut her rice crop and family income by at least one third. It hasn't rained in central Thailand in more than three months, impacting agriculture and domestic water use. Many farms are running short of irrigration water and salt water from the Gulf of Siam has come up the Chao Phraya River and infiltrated the water plants in Pathum Thani province that serve Bangkok. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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17 MARCH 2014 - LAM LUK KA, PATHUM THANI, THAILAND: A farmer tries to start the irrigation pump in his rice field in Pathum Thani. She said the drought in central Thailand would cut her rice crop and family income by at least one third. It hasn't rained in central Thailand in more than three months, impacting agriculture and domestic water use. Many farms are running short of irrigration water and salt water from the Gulf of Siam has come up the Chao Phraya River and infiltrated the water plants in Pathum Thani province that serve Bangkok. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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