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There were so many issues we faced on the project. We just didn't have the equipment. It's not like Japan where you have companies and engineers to work with. So that was the situation, the idea that the local communities would build and maintain the canals themselves. And unlike Japan, the government provides very little backing. So, the local people had to be able to build it and maintain it themselves. Otherwise it wouldn't last. So, we were never going to be able to make some pristine concrete structure like you'd see in Japan. We had to use the technology that was there, and it required a lot of clever ideas.