Mountain springs are the lifeblood of the majestic rice terraces of the northern Philippines, but keeping the emerald stairways to the clouds fit for tourist eyes sometimes required the spilling of blood.
Carved from the sides of towering peaks, some of the plots had gone untended over the past decade as tribes of Igorots, the hardy descendants of headhunters, fought deadly battles for control of the precious but diminishing water sources.
But following a truce in April, the irrigation canals have since been flowing again into the terraces on either side of the mountain, just in time to save the dry-season crop of aromatic upland rice.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/06/16/2003259523
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