Drilling a development well results in either an oil or gas development well or a dry development well.

所钻的开发井可能成为产油或气的开发井，也可能为干井。

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If not,they say, the future of food security, economic development and social stability in dry areas will be put at risk.

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Man lived in this area before the last desertification or before the drastic climatic changes ended with the hot dry conditions and development of deserts.

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His research has resulted in the development of the first self-cleaning, dry adhesive and a number of gecko-like robots, including Stickybot, a mechanized lizard developed by Stanford University engineers that can climb up windows and walls using its own adhesive appendages.

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Dr Weiss observes that the development of irrigation coincides with a second cool, dry period, some 8, 200 years ago.

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