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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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"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.
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Mostly semi-arid, arid or desert, the country depends for its water on scattered catchments in highland areas.
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