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Traditional agricultural and water harvesting techniques to cater to droughts and floods

Location

Place : Arizona
 
Country : USA
 
Region : North America
 
 

Hazard

Primary : Flood

Secondary: Droughts

Typology of Heritage

Hydrological Heritage

Aspect of Disaster Management

Mitigation

Summary

In the USA, the Navajo Nation has used their traditional knowledge of water harvesting and dryland farming to cope with droughts and floods.

They have also used their traditional practices of mutual aid and community resilience to support each other during disasters.

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