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Desertification: the invisible frontline
… - decrease in area 1963, 1973, 1987, 1997 and 2001 aral sea - decrease in area 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010 the … network of canals and levees are depleting the aral sea water resources through infiltration and evaporation, … effective when they are part of a country-wide or regional-level effort to preserve and rehabilitate landscapes. …
Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… include not only higher temperatures but also rising sea levels, altered precipitation patterns, and an increase … with the adjacent ocean, these withdrawals can cause sea water to be drawn into the aquifers, increasing the … zones. Since most watercourse systems eventually reach the sea, coastal residents bear the effects of freshwater …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… arid regions of Jordan 4. Building dialogue at basin-level in Mesoamerican drylands between Honduras and El … the Yellow River, Yangtse, Ganges and Mekong, all rise in the drylands of Tibet and support a population in … great decline of water resources and sediment flux to the sea has been a common occurrence for the two great Chinese …