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Fig. 9.1
Boundary of the Heihe River watershed
Spotty oases appear intermittently along the streams, lakes, and irrigation ditches.
Since it is extremely dry, the Alashan Highland is a large source of frequent
sandstorms (Cheng et al. 1999 ; He et al. 2009 ).
The total annual water withdrawal in the Heihe in 1995 was about 3.36 billion
(10 9 )m 3 and 86 % of that was used to irrigate over 288,000 ha of farmland mainly
located in the Hexi Corridor (Pan and Qian 2001 ; He et al. 2009 ), leaving less than
0.5 billion (10 9 )m 3 of annual flow to the lower reach (north of the Zhengyixia Gage
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