Not Enough Water: Conquer the Desert or Live Within Its Limits

Sands from sprngtime dust storms piles up against mud brick house of Mongol farmer. The deep wells of Tongu-lugu-lar village have not yet dried up but the village, like the grasslands that surround it are literally being swallowed up by Tengger Desert sands, Inner Mongolia. Beijing has laid down a line in the desert sand in a stuggle to halt the advance of the Gobi Desert called "Taming the Yellow Dragon" as China's Environmental Agency says that the Gobi Desert expanded 52,400...
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Sands from sprngtime dust storms piles up against mud brick house of Mongol farmer. The deep wells of Tongu-lugu-lar village have not yet dried up but the village, like the grasslands that surround it are literally being swallowed up by Tengger Desert sands, Inner Mongolia. Beijing has laid down a line in the desert sand in a stuggle to halt the advance of the Gobi Desert called "Taming the Yellow Dragon" as China's Environmental Agency says that the Gobi Desert expanded 52,400 square km. (20,240 square miles) from 1994 to 1999, about half the size of the state of Pennsylvania.
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