They displace people from modern resources, like clean water and sewage systems, that prevent infectious disease from spreading.

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Earth resources: next to turbidite systems, also contourites may generate well-sorted deep-water sands.

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And if Afghanistan's desperately degraded agricultural systems, particularly its use of water, were ever to be modernised, the violent tussle for resources might end anyway.

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