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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… have therefore been lost in one century, primarily through drainage for agriculture and urban development and water … for conversion to alternative land use. By 1985, the drainage of available wetlands for intensive agriculture was … different activities can generate the same process. Drainage and excessive groundwater abstraction can both …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… wetlands. It has also been one of the main reasons for the drainage of wetlands, not completely halted even when the … attempted to cultivate the land that resulted from the drainage. The results soon proved disastrous. For irrigation, … systems (such as irrigation, water distribution and drainage associations, and traditional dispute settlement …