Vegetables and fruits are brought in daily from the surrounding wadis, such as Wadi Fāṭimah, from the Al-Ṭāʾif area to the east-southeast, and from the southern agricultural areas, such as Bilād Ghāmid and Bilād Zahrān.
The members of Para 3, a mortar unit stationed at the Kajaki wadi, are so familiar with their posting that they seem somewhat lackadaisical about the dangers of war.
When Aharon Chelouche's carriage overturned in a wadi, a dried out riverbed, the governor of Jaffa built a bridge for him.One son, Yaakov, became the treasurer of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, which financed the Jewish settlements.
Faded lettering is visible above the entrance: Frères Chelouche, and in Arabic, Ikhwan Chelouche (Chelouche Brothers).The governor's bridge still spans the wadi, which is now a car park.
It is the perceived flimflamming over Fallujah and the growing sense that Mr Bush is up a wadi without a paddle.
The largest wadi systems are the Wadi Zamzam and Wadi Bayy al-Kabīr, both of which empty into the sea on the western coast of the Gulf of Sidra.
According to Ali al-Ghabban, vice president of Antiquities and Museums at the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities, other finds from the site, located in a dry wadi, included mummified human remains, stone tools, and implements for spinning and weaving.
Amman's focus of settlement throughout history has been the small high triangular plateau (modern Mount Al-Qalʿah Al-Qalʿahth of the wadi.
Exceptions to this are the wadi areas and the moist zones of the northern coastal mountains, where the frankincense tree (Boswellia) grows.
Alexander's march through Gedrosia proved disastrous; waterless desert and shortage of food and fuel caused great suffering, and many, especially women and children, perished in a sudden monsoon flood while encamped in a wadi.
Although precipitation is extremely low in the true desert zone and the vegetation cover is scant, some plants from the semiarid region penetrate the occasional wadi valley, and date palms are grown in the southern oases.
