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 | | There was a raised island of salt in the middle of the Chott where camels and humans could spend the night or the day, depending on the season, before continuing on their way to the other side. |
 | | Again, the idea of flooding the Chotts surfaced in the mid 60's when the Plowshares, an atomic energy group in America, decided that creating a trench to the interior of Tunisia was a good idea and the best way to do it was with atom bombs. |
 | | Anyway, if they ever did try to fill the Chotts with water, be it fresh or salt, it would do little good for agriculture as the whole area is permeated with salt to such a degree that nothing will grow there, even when there is moisture. |
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