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Oued Mird, Sahara, Morocco. Entrepreneur nomads with technological resources find and use ground water in remote locations to irrigate crops that support a commercial activity. Semi- permanent settlements sprout, grow and decay in one or two decades, leaving behind exhausted aquifers and a barren, overexploited vegetation surrounded by timeless regs.


Funded by European Commission
VI Framework Program
Global Change and Ecosystems
Coordinating CSIC
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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