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By sweeping your home in the morning with grass brooms, you also wipe out negative thoughts and energies." This is an old Indian proverb.. A broom made of grass is an important part in every body's life across India. It is used in all homes, rich or poor, to restore order and beauty to the surroundings. Years have passed but the jharoo is still very much a part of daily Indian life, even being used in fancy resorts. In fact, it is even available in Indian stores in the US for those who still need their Indian broom..Broom grass is transforming steep, degraded slopes above the Trishuli and Seti rivers in this area. The lower-income, indigenous communities who inhabit these valleys previously subsisted through shifting cultivation by clearing and burning extensive areas of forest to plant low-yielding crops until the soil became exhausted and invasive exotic weeds invaded, prompting people to clear another area. This practice led to deforestation, soil erosion, and landslides, increasing silt in rivers—the sediment is deposited in flatter areas downstream, worsening floods and sometimes change the course of the river.