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The backwaters of Kerala are a web of rivers,
lakes and canals which thread the state in a glittering, typically
green, net. In some places, like the dyke lands of the Kuttanad, the
water is held up by high rampart because it flows above the level of the
emerald-green paddy fields on either side. If the pumps of the Kuttanad
were to stop, the fields would become lakes starred with water lilies
where white egrets fly silently over their own reflections.
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