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Wetlands can be considered as sinks into which surface water or groundwater flows from a surrounding catchment. Within landscapes they are “natural harvesters” of rainwater and, by definition, sites where water occurs at or close to the ground surface.

 

==Reference manuals, videos, and link==

* [http://wetlands-afrique.40fingers.eu/Resources/NewsEN/tabid/2693/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1873/Default.aspx Drought in eastern Africa worsened by wetland loss.] Wetlands International, 2009.

 

==Acknowledgements==

[http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/IWMI_Research_Reports/PDF/PUB137/RR137.aspx Wetlands, Agriculture and Poverty Reduction.] IWMI, 2010.

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