Poison in the Vadose Zone: An examination of the threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.

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There are sycamores, elms, maples, poplars on a fertile flood plain along the river.

CNN: When autumn leaves fall

Asadi grew up in Chubayish and he was here when, just after the fall of Saddam's regime, the marsh people took shovels and broke Saddam's embankment, letting the water of the river rush out onto the plain.

NPR: Iraq's Marshlands Face A Second Death By Drought

What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?

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In 2007 the area was severely affected when 40 properties flooded despite the nearby River Severn being low and the flood plain dry.

BBC: Drainage study for flood-hit Tirley to go ahead

Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green flood plain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.

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The worst-affected areas are the fertile Hauran plain, south of Damascus, and the wheat-belt east of the Euphrates river.

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