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The purpose of this talk is to publish a few sites and artifacts, which have disappeared, been overlooked or mentioned in the literature but not illustrated. In 1968 the Phillip Holtzmann and Wakuti companies finished the main Al-Hasa drainage canal system, which carried the twice-used irrigation water away from the edges of the oasis (Eigland, 1970: 22-29). These pools of salty water had encroached on the farms and gardens and gradually reduced the area of usable agricultural land. This drainage water was, and is, piped to two “evaporation seas”, the term on the Wakuti map. When we toured the project in early 1970 we asked whether in fact the planners had any idea that the water going to the northern of these “seas” would find its way to the Gulf. The answer was an embarrassed “No”.
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