Mozambique's soils are diverse in quality and type, but the northern and central provinces have generally more fertile, water-retentive soils than does the south, where sandy, infertile soils prevail.
There, the combination of inaccessibility and fertile waters had produced Atlantic salmon runs of prehistoric proportions.
In these fertile waters, schools of millions of sand-eels can stretch over areas the size of playing fields.
But an allegedly illegal mining operation is said to be changing the face of the island and threatening the fertile waters that surround it.
— A year after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston Bay's oyster beds, the oystermen who have been harvesting seafood from the bay's fertile waters for generations are barely hanging on, and many fear that this could be their last oyster season.
Conversely, Icelandic whalers – who killed their first minke whales of the season last month – have protested against new regulations forbidding them from operating in waters visited by the whale-watch boats – on the grounds that these are also the most fertile waters for their hunts.
Valla desires to weed out everything he regards as barren and infertile in scholastic thought and to re-cultivate the ground by sprinkling it with the fertile waters of rhetoric and grammar.
The ground is less fertile and water less plentiful at the new location, say inhabitants, and the houses provided by Vale are shoddily built.
The ground here is fertile, and water is plentiful.
River basins generally constitute areas with a high population density owing to favorable living conditions such as the availability of fertile lands; water for irrigation, industrial or drinking purposes; and efficient means of transportation.
