Even in arid market economies where every drop is precious, the price of water seldom reflects scarcity.
In arid regions, in places feeling a need for the lack of water, underground water resources are often the only source of fresh water.
This is where MeerKAT named after a species of mongoose found in arid areas of south-western Africa such as the Karoo could play a crucial role.
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Groundwater is a major component of water resources in arid regions.
Thanks to advances in geosciences, it is now possible to detect the precise location of groundwater in arid climates like that of the Horn of Africa.
The programme, which provides a UNESCO Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands was established in 2004 to strengthen the global capacity for management of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions.
The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
During the consultations governance challenges in arid and semi-arid areas were discussed and how institutions can be better equipped to deal with risks and uncertainties, emerging out of climate change, population growth, urban-rural tensions and groundwater pollution.
The topics of this workshop include groundwater modelling in arid areas, the application of stochastic groundwater modelling in arid areas, isotope techniques in groundwater research in arid areas, and the interaction of surface water and groundwater and the modelling in arid areas.
The Summit brought together policymakers, scientists, experts and business executives in order to promote water sustainability in arid regions, and to tackle the urgent water and wastewater challenges they are facing -- including the water energy nexus that is gaining prominence on the international agenda.
There are two other species of wombat, the common (or bare-nosed) wombat, which is not endangered and is found on the southeastern coast of Australia (in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and the southern hairy nosed wombat, which is endangered and is found in arid, sandy pockets in the southern part of Australia (in South Australia and Western Australia).
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This flavour does not diminish in the arid cabin atmosphere and is present in the likes of porcini mushrooms, spinach and soy sauce, among others foods.
Another obvious step is to deter the cattle raiders by improving security in the arid borderlands.
People in the arid north of the country have for the last 50 years been mostly excluded from political and economic developments.
In the arid country of New Mexico you really think about water.
She oversees a critical juncture in the Colorado River Valley, stewarding the very essence of what makes life possible in the arid American Southwest.
Fourth, Israel must have control of its water resources, which are of great long-term importance in an arid region where there are already shortages.
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Fortuna has also provided economic assistance in building 11 dams in heavily arid areas for farmers to trap water and distribute it to their homes.
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If glacier wastage continues at the present trend as observed during the last 2 decades, it will severely affect the water resources in the arid central Andes of Argentina.
"But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.
They include attractions as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (which includes Ayers Rock) in the arid red heart of Australia, and the temperate Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area.
Protected by uninhabited forests to the north, the Rockies in the west and arid country in the south, authorities set up a 323-mile long, 18-mile wide buffer zone along the other place rats might enter, Alberta's eastern border with Saskatchewan.
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Climate change, it says, will make food even scarcer in semi-arid countries such as Sudan.
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It's a smattering of small wood and mud huts, about an hour's drive from Tete in a harsh arid environment.
Because solar power production makes the most sense in sunny, arid climates, this is precisely where consuming scarce water resources is most harmful to the environment.
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On his release he began to campaign for a big dam on the Iato river, which roared down in the winter rains and dried up in the nine arid months.
Dickson Despommier, a longtime Columbia University professor who is the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century thinks the concept will be initially viable in rich, arid places like Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
He points to the success of micro-irrigation in semi-arid Gujarat, whose agriculture has grown at an average of 9.6% a year since the turn of the century, partly thanks to the creation of 500, 000 small ponds, dams and suchlike.
This small town in the middle of an arid, barren region but right in the middle of Philip's Hispanic territories soon became the critical political hub not just of the peninsula but the rapidly expanding Spanish Empire.
At an arid moment in the interview, I sprang this opinion on her.
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