However, the water resource system in karst regions is sensitive to external interference owing to the special geological processes which cause soil impoverishment, severe rocky desertification and large topographic height difference.
I sometimes wish I were handier, and take seriously Dr Johnson's contention that being cackhanded is a form of stupidity quite as severe as any intellectual impoverishment.
The future of 5.5 million children living in Syria and neighbouring countries hangs in the balance as violence, collapsing health and education services, severe psychological distress and impoverishment combine to scar a generation, a UN report has warned.
Their impoverishment is so severe that when Molly offers to read them a bedtime story, they don't know what she means: they've never had a bed.
The impact of borrowing on households can be severe, leading to indebtedness and further impoverishment.
This caused impoverishment of the people and severe conflict, further compounded by as refugees migrating from troubled neighbouring countries.
Such blocks with high indigenous population are marked by impoverishment, marginalization and exploitation and severe issues of gender discrimination, violence and denial of rights (Public Health Resource Network [PHRN] 2010).
The camps were characterised by severe over-crowding, poor water and sanitation, impoverishment, food aid dependency, restricted movement beyond the camps, and violent attacks (Human Rights Watch, 2005; Roberts, Ocaka, Browne, Oyok, & Sondorp, 2008).
It is hard not to admire Fitzgerald, who, amid material chaos, impoverishment, a failed marriage, and what seems to be severe depression, held her family together, and became its breadwinner.
