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Irrigated Agriculture, Saudi Arabia
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In Saudi Arabia, center-pivot, swing-arm irrigated agriculture complexes such as the one imaged at Jabal Tuwayq (20.5N, 45.0 E) extract deep fossil water reserves to achieve food crop production self sufficiency in this desert environment. The significance of the Saudi expanded irrigated agriculture is that the depletion of this finite water resource is a short term solution to a long term need that will still exist when the water has been extracted.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineIrrigated Agriculture, Saudi Arabia. NASA/JSC, 1990-01-20. Public domain. ID: s32-96-032.
