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Figure 15: Modern and Abandoned Irrigation Systems

discrete image, the integral changes in area have not been presented in a
temporally continuous way. This is remedied in Figure 16, which is a composite
diagram of each of the preceding series of maps. Throughout the past, Bahrain
experienced episodic changes in the areal extent of land occupied. Land