{"title":"The significance of drinking water for population migration in the Sahel zone of the Republic of Sudan.","authors":"H Ruppert","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines how the availability of water supplies affects migration in the Sahel region of Sudan. More particularly, the author shows that \"through the development of watering-places and the opening-up of new water resources, the government influences considerably processes of population migration and regional concentrations of population groups.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84180,"journal":{"name":"Applied geography and development","volume":"37 ","pages":"39-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied geography and development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study examines how the availability of water supplies affects migration in the Sahel region of Sudan. More particularly, the author shows that "through the development of watering-places and the opening-up of new water resources, the government influences considerably processes of population migration and regional concentrations of population groups."