Assertion: desert's water | /r/HasProperty | scarce
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: across the entire region
type: LOCATION
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: in deserts
type: LOCATION
value: with no streams
type: OTHER
value: except in a few large springs
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Water is scarce, with no streams, no lakes, no wells, and precipitation falls seldom.
text: Water is scarce except in a few large springs and widely spaced riverbeds.
text: As agriculture depends upon irrigation and water supply, farming in arid regions where water is scarce is a challenge.
text: This is because food and water in the desert is scarce while the climatic conditions are quite extreme.
text: In desert ecosystems, the plant and animal life that lives there will have evolved so that they can combat the harsh conditions (for example, they will have evolved to store water supplies in their bodies as water is very scarce in deserts).
text: Although water is scarce across the entire region, the Sahara contains two permanent rivers (the Nile and the Niger), at least 20 seasonal lakes and huge aquifers, which are the primary sources of water in the more than 90 major desert oases.
text: It's a place where plants, animals, and human beings have adapted to--even thrive in--an environment where water is usually scarce and its arrival almost always unpredictable.
text: Their adaptive traits have enabled camels to survive in a prolonged water-deprived environment, high ambient temperatures, particularly in areas where water is scarce, and to survive in poor quality or scarce food resources.
text: This Biome only has Rabbits as living creatures, and water is scarce.