Word: waterless
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...whole, Dr. Kuiper concluded, the meteorology of waterless Venus must be rather simple. There are no ocean basins to complicate the circulation of the dusty carbon-dioxide winds. The yellow dust merely drifts along; it does not condense unpredictably and fall as capricious rain to confound meteorologists...
...cuts across the West, drains 246,000 square miles and-thanks to reclamation projects like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
...still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet and his lady was the heatless, lightless. waterless hunting lodge, and even that had been rented out for weekends. Sir Adrian went back to London and bivouacked in a railway waiting room. His money running out, he got to thinking of the cheap London district he was raised in, before he had dreams of nobility...
...only thing small about Kuwait (rhymes with do right) is its size-6,000 square miles of overheated, waterless, treeless land at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Everything else about it is fantastically...
...wore a cheery manner, long hair, and a dirty white shirt. He grabbed me by the arm and said "come on down stairs. We've got some things to bring up." The things turned out to be two large and heavy boxes filled with Wearever Waterless Cookwear...