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  Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By 2025, it is predicted that the countries of the Arabian peninsula will be using more than double the amount of water naturally available to them.
Desalination of abundant ocean or seawater is a more expensive solution used in coastal arid climates.
The distribution of drinking water is done through municipal water systems or as bottled water.
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 Professor Andrew S. Goudie - Academic Staff, School of Geography, Centre for the Environment
Goudie's main research interests include desert geomorphology, dust storms, weathering, climatic change in the tropics, and the impacts of humans on the environment.
Ongoing field work includes, a study of sandstone geomorphology in deserts, a study of weathering phenomena and tufas in the Namib, work on dune morphology and age in the United Arab Emirates, and studies of dust storms with Nick Middleton and Richard Washington.
· Goudie, A.S., Wright, E. and Viles, H.A. (2002) The roles of salt (sodium nitrate) and fog in weathering: a laboratory simulation of conditions in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk /staff/agoudie.php   (2248 words)

  
 Vegetation Of Saudi Arabia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert...
Western Asia: Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands...
A zonal vegetation pattern is evident from the coastal plains to the
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