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"If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city," the paper said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2023

Few outsiders have entered the wadi since the American academic Joseph J. Hobbs visited while researching his book “Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness,” in the early 1980s.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

Umm al-Hiran lies in a wadi, or small valley, not far from the large town of Beersheba at the top end of the Negev desert.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2012

“It shows a very strong sensitivity to the geology in the choice of colors for the rock, and also in the little colored spots that represent the gravel on the wadi floor,” Harrell said.

From National Geographic

Beneath a projecting rock face over a gravel bottomed wadi, the two hover-lorries were hidden, whilst a slow-moving helio-jet made sweeping, high-altitude circlings above them.

From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds

The results showed the tools were likely to have been used approximately 84 thousand years ago and then abandoned on the banks of the wadis and subsequently buried over time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023

Access to the area is expected to be difficult after the rainy season starts because large streams, known as wadis, are set to cut it off from supplies.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2023

As we crossed a few dried-out wadis, or rivers, on our way to Borota, raindrops appeared and puddles began to form.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2023

The sediment layers include muddy, silty deposits from roaring rivers called wadis that form in the desert during once-every-quarter-century rains.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2022

The High Hall of the Arryns was aglow with the light of fifty torches, burning in the sconces along the wadis.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin