and then the desert is scarcely above the level of the water, and in fact in many places it is below it, so that the water covers many hundreds of acres, and the course of the canal is buoyed out ...

Removing toxins is another challenge. Canals are sensitive to topography and cannot survive in the aeolian desert conditions. India’s Rajasthan Canal serves as a cautionary tale, where thousands of ...

noting that water will be taken from Sulemanki Headworks through the link canal. The federal government plans to construct six canals on the Indus River to irrigate the Cholistan desert — a ...