This is to prevent arid states from looking at the five Great Lakes as their reservoirs.
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It creates a dry mist that harkens back to the arid dust of South African townships.
"The arid Southwest takes you to the conclusion that water is everything, " he says.
One area of concern is the Sahel, a vast semi-arid area south of the Sahara desert.
Another obvious step is to deter the cattle raiders by improving security in the arid borderlands.
Saudi Arabia and UAE are arid states but they have found ways of recycling water.
Climate change, it says, will make food even scarcer in semi-arid countries such as Sudan.
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The body was found the morning of March 6, 1993, on the arid outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.
Mostly semi-arid, arid or desert, the country depends for its water on scattered catchments in highland areas.
Even in arid market economies where every drop is precious, the price of water seldom reflects scarcity.
It is an arid, lonesome land, cut only by the blue scalpel line of the Rio Grande.
The unusually heavy rains have hit many regions used to downpours but also the arid north-east of Brazil.
On an arid, sun-drenched day in Las Vegas in November 2000 Dennis D.
At an arid moment in the interview, I sprang this opinion on her.
The photographs clearly show an arid region being slowly brought back to life, over a period of 30 years.
Arid Uka, who murdered two American soldiers last year, had internet contacts to groups similar to Mr Abu Nagie's.
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Researchers have found that arid climates are no more conflict-prone than humid ones.
Part is also happenstance: birth rates are high in some large, arid stretches of Africa and the Middle East.
For guaranteed encounters and a wonderful introduction to the arid zone take advantage of the beautifully executed Alice Springs Desert Park.
There is also a network of perennial waterholes that draw large herds of game from the arid savannah grassland and thorn scrub.
The drive was unexpectedly beautiful: a lonely road meandered through the hills, the scenery a juxtaposition of wild growth and arid land.
But the arid legal hairsplitting that dominates that chamber poses fewer policy problems than the messier lower courts do.
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The bottomlands are carpeted with arid sagebrush and dotted with spring ponds.
It's a smattering of small wood and mud huts, about an hour's drive from Tete in a harsh arid environment.
My recollection is that plaza was a pretty exposed, arid place, distinguished by an absence of trees, not their luster.
"But I could only teach them this, " he says, pointing to the arid cornfields on his small parcel of land.
These tiny, blind, hairless subterranean rodents live in social colonies of 100-300 animals in the harsh, semi-arid conditions of Africa.
The Arabian Peninsula may be known for its arid deserts, but it's also home to a fertile oasis of economic growth.
And arid conditions, especially during the summer, leave the area without much rainfall to rinse the muck out of the air.
Many deserted and began the long difficult journey home across the Sahara and arid mountain ranges, avoiding checkpoints as they went.
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