with no natural sources of water nearby. Just how the government plans to source the vast amounts of water for the project is unclear. The oasis is being constructed in the middle of a worsening ...

Two-thirds of natural sites are crucial sources of water, and about half help prevent hazards such as floods or landslides. They also have a central role in climate regulation and carbon sequestration ...

But with little rainfall and few other natural sources of water, it always dried up. This time, though, as settlers arrived and farming began, agricultural drainage water replenished what was lost ...