It is an extraordinary legacy for an arid, windswept town in the far southeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
R.U.D.I. saleswomen gave a live demonstration of how an order is placed and delivery received with a simple text message,in the hot and arid Dhrangadhra town.
Midland, an arid West Texas town at the epicenter of the current oil boom, had never imposed watering restrictions until a few years ago.
A few years after World War II, on the island of Hong Kong, Constantin, 36, and Elizabeth, 18, are walking down the mountains of the arid island towards town.
In semi-arid areas, pumping town water supplies from alluvium adjacent a stream rather than the stream itself has been used to reduce turbidity and has potential to remove blue-green algal toxins, such as microsystin.
Many of the them stayed on the run through miles of arid thorn bush until they reached the town of Agok early Sunday morning.
It's nearly 20 years later when Vice breezes into town one arid Wednesday in January, and Orania's population is still stalled somewhere around the 700 mark, albeit 700 entirely white, entirely Afrikaans, staunchly religious, upstanding Burghers.
Croatia's coast is speckled with dozens of magnificent islands that range from tiny, verdant and unpopulated to massive, arid and sporting ancient towns and villages.
He hauled them from College Station to an arid auxiliary campus in a town called Junction, putting them through 10 days of grueling drills in temperatures exceeding 110 degrees, making them endure long stretches without rest or water.
The couple returned home to vote in a tiny election on Sunday that is considered a bellwether in the merging worlds of Mexican and American politics, a sleepy town on the arid plains of northern Mexico.
