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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 3: Wetlands sustain lives. How can we take care of them?

… can make disasters worse… • Canalizing rivers and limiting drainage reduces the natural floodplain sponge effect and …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… ha). They are often located in depressions in the old drainage systems that date from the time when the Sahara was … timber is cut; in dry areas much of the timber grows in drainage lines and around wetlands; - provision of firewood, …
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