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Page 82
... percent to 75 percent . Once the Aswan High Dam had been completed , the comparable fig- ure rose in some communities to an estimated 100 percent . 28 Elsewhere , the story is the same . Biswas , for example , cites a study undertaken ...
... percent to 75 percent . Once the Aswan High Dam had been completed , the comparable fig- ure rose in some communities to an estimated 100 percent . 28 Elsewhere , the story is the same . Biswas , for example , cites a study undertaken ...
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... percent of land area , in some cases , less than 1 percent . " Much of that deforestation has occurred in the last thirty years . Wu- zeng , one of the areas hardest hit by floods , possessed more than 10,000 hectares of forest in the ...
... percent of land area , in some cases , less than 1 percent . " Much of that deforestation has occurred in the last thirty years . Wu- zeng , one of the areas hardest hit by floods , possessed more than 10,000 hectares of forest in the ...
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... percent of the country's land suffers to varying degrees from salinization or waterlogging , but that figure reaches 80 percent in the Punjab . In the lower In- dus , concentrations of salt in the groundwater have been found to reach ...
... percent of the country's land suffers to varying degrees from salinization or waterlogging , but that figure reaches 80 percent in the Punjab . In the lower In- dus , concentrations of salt in the groundwater have been found to reach ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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