"dry lands" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could write, "The dry lands of the desert make for an unforgiving terrain."
Nomadic mobility is key to protecting the world's dry lands.
"Tree planting is bloody difficult in dry lands," he said.
Now she has set up a block-print studio in the flat, dry lands outside Jaipur.
At higher elevations precipitation increases, and the mountaintops accumulate snow caps from which streams descend into the dry lands below.
Hardly a page passes without a reminder that the world's glories, from wetlands to dry lands, are dying, and we have killed them.
But a different definition became widespread in 1902, when the Bureau of Reclamation launched projects to irrigate the dry lands of the West.
For example, with desert or dry lands already accounting for two-thirds of Africa's landmass, further desertification is expected to displace 60 million people between 2014 and 2020.
And for populations living in dry lands, especially those in Africa, changing weather patterns threaten to exacerbate desertification, drought and food insecurity.
Since the 1944 treaty, irrigated agriculture has flooded the dry lands of the Rio Grande basin, feeding thirsty crops like citrus and sugar cane in a semidesert.
