Artificial rain

Artificial rain

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an artificial rain facility housed in a hut in the town of Okutama, western Tokyo, on Aug. 21, 2013. The Tokyo metropolitan government ran the facility to release silver iodide mixed with acetone to up in the air on a trial basis for the first time in 12 years in light of low storage levels in dams in the area.

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