Participants who perceived higher ecological impact due to risks to water environments had less water-intensive (more desert-friendly) landscape in their gardens.
Organic growing practices, low-volume irrigation, and less growing of water-intensive crops in deserts would reduce water use while producing an abundance of environmental benefits.
The water shortage has placed extra scrutiny on usage here in the Coachella Valley, where intensive irrigation has transformed the desert scrubland into lush lawns and golf courses.
A handful of tiny babies with feeble limbs populated a ward in an intensive nutrition clinic in the desert town of Tanout.
The Desert peoples made intensive use of virtually all aspects of their habitat, specializing in the use of vegetable fibres for a wide variety of implements, including twine, nets, baskets, sandals, and snares.
I showered with sunflower body wash, massaged with garnet exfoliant, slathered on intensive body cream, shampooed with desert flower and rinsed with avocado hair conditioner.
Planners fail to take the cost of water into account, so provincial governments entice water-intensive firms to invest in desert areas and officials designate drought-prone regions as the sites of vast new cities.
In Desert Golfing, concentration-intensive, precise taps toward each featureless, procedurally-generated stage's goal take you from one screen to the next, and the only factor to manage is how long it takes you to get there.
Beneath the glass domes are five climatic zones -- rain forest, desert, savanna, ocean and intensive agriculture -- meant to mimic the Earth's diversity and be a protective buffer for the eight Biospherians., as they call themselves.
