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The depth of ground water is very high in this region, as the sea is not far away, despite it being a saline desert. A makeshift rickety old water pump pumps out water from underground (actually from the sub-surface aquifer) into the salt pan, for salt-making activities... Little desert of Kutch is a salt marsh located near the Great Rann of Kutch in Kutch district, Gujarat, India. There is traditional commercial salt panning activity in the region which the Indian state of Gujarat's Forest department wants to discourage as it is considered a threat to ecology of the region, wildlife and to the endangered Indian Wild Ass. Source - Wikipedia This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia
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