More irrigation works would have to be built to feed the growing population, and this resulted in more power and wealth for the elite.

国家必须修建更多的灌溉工程来养活不断增长的人口，这为精英阶层带来了更多的权力和财富。

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Irrigation works have an important position in China for a long history.

水利在中国有着重要地位和悠久历史。

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Its artery of roads, bridges and irrigation works, weaving around the Indus, has been smashed.

贯穿印度河沿岸的主要公路，桥梁和农田灌溉设施被毁。

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If a mere fraction of the public money spent on big irrigation projects were spent on small-scale works in the semi-arido, he argues, subsistence farmers could survive the drought with their animals and livelihoods intact and with no need to beg for aid from the local political bosses.

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