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97 relations: Aïr Mountains, Africa, African elephant, African manatee, African wild dog, Air pollution, Algae, Apollo 7, Aral Sea, Atlantropa, Augustus, Bahr el Ghazal River, Bank (geography), Black crowned crane, Bodélé Depression, Brycinus, Cameroon, Caracal, Caspian Sea, Chad, Chad Basin, Chari River, Chrysopogon nigritanus, Congo River, Daphnia barbata, Desertification, Drainage basin, Duck, Echinochloa, Endangered species, Endemism, Endorheic basin, Environmental disaster, Faya-Largeau, Fishes of the World, Floating island, Floodplain, Food and Agriculture Organization, French language, Fresh water, Garamantes, Heinrich Barth, Herman Sörgel, Hippopotamus, Hyparrhenia rufa, Inland sea (geology), International Union for Conservation of Nature, Island, James Richardson (explorer), Journal of Geophysical Research, ..., Lake, Lake Chad Basin Commission, Lake Malawi, Lake Ptolemy, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, List of drying lakes, List of lakes, Logone River, Marsh, Mayo Kébbi, Neolithic Subpluvial, Niger, Niger River, Nigeria, Nile, Nile crocodile, Northeast African cheetah, Oryza longistaminata, Overdrafting, Overgrazing, Percolation, Ptolemy, Ramsar Convention, River prinia, Roman Empire, Romans in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ruff, Rusty bush lark, Sahara, Sahel, South Sudan, Species richness, Spirulina (dietary supplement), Striped hyena, Subspecies, Sudd, Swamp, Tibesti Mountains, Ubangi River, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, Voice of America, Water, Water conflict, Wetland, Yobe River. Expand index (47 more) »
Aïr Mountains
The Aïr Mountains or Aïr Massif (Ayăr; Hausa: Eastern Azbin, Western Abzin) is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara Desert.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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African elephant
African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta.
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African manatee
The African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis), also known as the West African manatee or sea cow, is a species of manatee that is mostly herbivorous.
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African wild dog
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as African hunting dog, African painted dog, painted hunting dog, or painted wolf, is a canid native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was an October 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States.
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Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake (one with no outflow) lying between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and Kyzylorda Regions) in the north and Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan autonomous region) in the south.
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Atlantropa
Atlantropa, also referred to as Panropa, was a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and promoted by him until his death in 1952.
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Augustus
Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
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Bahr el Ghazal River
The Bahr el Ghazal (بحر الغزال) (also spelled Bahr al Ghazal and Baḩr al Ghazāl) is a river in South Sudan.
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Bank (geography)
In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.
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Black crowned crane
The black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina) is a bird in the crane family Gruidae.
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Bodélé Depression
The Bodélé Depression, located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in north central Africa, is the lowest point in Chad.
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Brycinus
Brycinus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Alestiidae.
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Cameroon
No description.
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Caracal
The caracal (Caracal caracal) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and India.
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Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Chad Basin
The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad.
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Chari River
The Chari River, or Shari River, is a long stream, flowing in Central Africa.
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Chrysopogon nigritanus
Chrysopogon nigritanus, more widely known by the taxonomic synonym Vetiveria nigritana, or the common name black vetivergrass, is a perennial grass species of the Poaceae family and therefore is also a monocotyledon.
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Congo River
The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.
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Daphnia barbata
Daphnia barbata is a species of water flea within the family Daphniidae.
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Desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Echinochloa
Echinochloa is a very widespread genus of plants in the grass family.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Environmental disaster
An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is a catastrophic event regarding the environment due to human activity.Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005 This distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster. It is also distinct from intentional acts of war such as nuclear bombings. In this case, the impact of humans' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences. It can include the deaths of animals (including humans) and plants, or severe disruption of human life, possibly requiring migration.
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Faya-Largeau
Faya-Largeau (also known as Faya, فايا لارجو or فايا) is the largest city in northern Chad and was the capital of the region of Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti.
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Fishes of the World
Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson is a standard reference for fish systematics.
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Floating island
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimetres to a few metres.
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Floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Garamantes
The Garamantes (possibly from the Berber igherman / iɣerman, meaning: "cities" in modern Berber; or possibly from igerramen meaning "saints, holy/sacred people" in modern Berber) were a Berber tribe, who developed an advanced civilization in ancient southwestern Libya.
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Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth (16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.
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Herman Sörgel
Herman Sörgel (2 April 1885— 25 December 1952) was a German architect from Bavaria.
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Hippopotamus
The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).
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Hyparrhenia rufa
Hyparrhenia rufa is a species of grass known by the common names jaragua, FAO.
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Inland sea (geology)
An inland sea (also known as an epeiric sea or an epicontinental sea) is a shallow sea that covers central areas of continents during periods of high sea level that result in marine transgressions.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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James Richardson (explorer)
James Richardson (born 3 November 1809 in Boston, Lincolnshire; died 4 March 1851 in Ngurutua near Kukawa, Bornu) Richardson was educated for the evangelical ministry.
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Journal of Geophysical Research
The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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Lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.
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Lake Chad Basin Commission
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC or CBLT in French) is an intergovernmental organization that oversees water and other natural resource usage in the basin.
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Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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Lake Ptolemy
Lake Ptolemy is a former lake in Sudan.
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Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.
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List of drying lakes
A number of lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry due to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow.
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List of lakes
For rank-order lists, see List of lakes by area, List of lakes by depth, List of lakes by volume.
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Logone River
The Logon or Logone River is a major tributary of the Chari River.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Mayo Kébbi
The Mayo Kébbi is a river in Central and West Africa.
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Neolithic Subpluvial
The Neolithic Subpluvial, or the Holocene Wet Phase, was an extended period (from about 7500–7000 BCE to about 3500–3000 BCE) of wet and rainy conditions in the climate history of northern Africa.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Niger River
The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nile
The Nile River (النيل, Egyptian Arabic en-Nīl, Standard Arabic an-Nīl; ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Jtrw; Biblical Hebrew:, Ha-Ye'or or, Ha-Shiḥor) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is commonly regarded as the longest river in the world, though some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest.
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Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second-largest extant reptile and crocodilian in the world, after the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
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Northeast African cheetah
The Northeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) is a cheetah subspecies occurring in Northeast Africa.
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Oryza longistaminata
Oryza longistaminata is a perennial species of grass from the same genus as cultivated rice (O. sativa).
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Overdrafting
Overdrafting is the process of extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of the aquifer.
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Overgrazing
Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.
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Percolation
In physics, chemistry and materials science, percolation (from Latin percōlāre, "to filter" or "trickle through") refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
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River prinia
The river prinia (Prinia fluviatilis) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Romans in Sub-Saharan Africa
Romans in Sub-Saharan Africa were a group of expeditions and explorations to Lake Chad and western Africa.
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Ruff
The ruff (Calidris pugnax) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia.
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Rusty bush lark
The rusty bush lark (Mirafra rufa), also known as the rusty lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in the Sahel region of north-central Africa.
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Sahara
The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.
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Sahel
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.
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South Sudan
South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.
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Species richness
Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region.
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Spirulina (dietary supplement)
Spirulina represents a biomass of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that can be consumed by humans and other animals.
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Striped hyena
The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Sudd
The Sudd is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section.
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Swamp
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.
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Tibesti Mountains
The Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small extension into southern Libya.
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Ubangi River
The Ubangi River, also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River in the region of Central Africa.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Water conflict
Water conflict is a term describing a conflict between countries, states, or groups over an access to water resources.
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Wetland
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
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Yobe River
The Yobe River, also known as the Komadougou Yobe or the Komadougou-Yobe (Komadougou Yobé), is a river in West Africa that flows into Lake Chad through Nigeria and Niger.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad
