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Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to

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