Farouk El-Baz

Director of the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

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Radar and satellite images have revealed  an aquifer  the size of Lake Erie beneath the blazing desert of Darfur in western Sudan.

Water and Human Conflict around the World

Radar and satellite images have revealed an aquifer the size of Lake Erie beneath the blazing desert of Darfur in western Sudan.

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