Northern Saudi Arabia hosts some of the most extensive sand and gravel deserts in the world, but modern agriculture has changed the face of some of them. Shifting sands continued encroaching on farmland and villages, the lack of efficient groundwater irrigation distribution and drainage resulted in increasing soil salinity and waterlogging, and economic and social changes, regional and national, brought about by the oil boom.
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