Of course, the most efficacious solution to living in a water-poor region is simply to move, which is what de Villiers himself did.
The Rio Grande Valley, at the southern tip of Texas, was once a dirt-poor region of few hopes where voting was aggressively regimented.
"We are a very poor region and it's really amazing to know that someone as celebrated as Vincent van Gogh stayed there, " he said.
This was the legislation that upset Mr Hojdar, a left-winger from a poor region of the north, when it survived a first reading last week.
Alternatively, the church could have broken new ground with less risk by choosing a conservative from another poor region where Catholicism is growing, not shrinking: Africa.
As a child growing up in a poor region of southern Algeria, Abou Zeid had little formal schooling, but his intimate knowledge of the border with Libya made him an expert smuggler.
One-room evangelical churches now dot the Latin American landscape, from remote Amazon villages to the labyrinthine slums that surround the poor-region's major cities.
Zug long was a poor farming region, but in 1947 its leaders began to trim tax rates in an effort to attract companies and the well-heeled.
In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.
But it is to Puno, a poor and remote region of 1.3m on the border with Bolivia, that those Peruvians who fear an impending populist shift look most closely.
Many poor ethnic Nepalese from the region were encouraged to come to the camps to avail of free food, housing, education, healthcare and other facilities.
According to the BBC's Ian MacWilliam in Kabul, Baghran lies in a poor, remote and mountainous region, which would have difficulty supporting large numbers of fighters at the best of times.
Due to the consequences of the environmental crisis in Aral Sea region such as poor soil conditions, intensive desertification and land degradation, the farmers and dehkhans often face a plenty of problems.
While he has frequently criticized the large gap between rich and poor in Latin America, he never followed many of his fellow Jesuits in pursuing Liberation Theology in the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that sought to lift the living standards for the region's poor.
The leaders of school inspection body Ofsted have met in York to discuss the poor performance of some of the region's secondary schools.
One farmer in Upper Teesdale said he feared he could lose his entire flock of sheep as poor weather conditions continue to hit the region.
"We are delighted at the honour bestowed upon Nabanna, " said Falguni Mondol, 35, a resident of Arbelia and a direct beneficiary of Nabanna, which is innovating on web-based databases and information sharing through internet to benefit the poor women of Baduria a remote region in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district which is the pilot site for Nabanna.
We have more than 50% in each country of the region (that) are very poor.
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The Sub-Saharan region faces several challenges, including poor understanding of groundwater regimes and poor and inadequate data and information.
The artist was born to a poor Jewish family in Vitebsk in the western region of Russia known as the Pale.
Still, the region's millions of struggling poor are likely to be better off even if, as usual, the rich skim off the cream.
Ashley Smith's fine break almost resulted in a second try for the Welsh region but his final pass was poor and the chance was lost.
Clogged ports and airports and poor road and railways connections meant that the region's opening to foreign trade in the 1980s and 1990s brought less benefit than it should have done.
With the deregulation of its financial market in the mid-1990s and subsequent stock market boom, Iceland had transformed itself from the poor cousin in Europe to one of the region's wealthiest countries.
Dana Diminescu, of France's Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, recently discovered that 11 villages in the Oas region of northern Romania, a poor farming area of about 70, 000 people, had generated a regular pattern of illegal migrants to Paris, almost all of whom eventually went back home.
He thinks the region needs to invest twice as much if poor infrastructure is not to hold back growth.
While the potential market opportunity is large, there could limitations from poor broadband quality and low per capita income in the region that might could reduce the near-term adoption.
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"London is the only region characterised by high percentages of both breadline poor and asset wealthy households and by a very small, in relative terms, percentage of households that are in the middle, " the report found.
The biggest risk is that the region fails to tackle its other longstanding weakness: poor education.
In a separate election in the small northern region of Asturias, the PP was placed a poor third.
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