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Running Head : World Regional Geography

World Regional Geography

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Sources of Water in the Middle East and the North Africa

Middle East and North Africa are regions in the world that are mostly faced with the problem of insufficient water sources to sustain their ever increasing population (Harmaan-334 ) As a consequence of this , the region is faced with a problem in maximizing on the major sources they have as they save for the future generations . Egypt for instance gets its vast water from the river Nile which it uses

for its agricultural purposes (Harmaan-336 . Sudan on the other hand survives mostly on the use of wells which are dug and up to recently several NGOs are leading projects that are aimed at increasing the number of wells in the Southern Sudan (Harmaan-350 . Dinka forms the location for major wells in the region

Dry , Run-on , and Irrigated Farming

An agricultural activity in regions where rain is in unreliable quantities and there are no clear means of artificial irrigation is referred to as dry irrigate farming . It occurs in arid areas where water is in great shortage so the limited one is left for human use e .g . in Sudan (Harmaan-351 . Run- on irrigation occurs in a situation whereby the farming is supported by artificial irrigation though in very limited amounts of water . Drip irrigation is an exact sample of this farming and it 's carried out in large amounts in Morocco Harmaan-352 . Irrigated farming finally is due to insufficient rain...

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