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"ref": "1991, Leslie E. Small, Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform",
"text": "[…] improving the channels in a distributary unit.",
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"(hydrology) A stream of water (either natural or artificial) that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel."
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