The solution was to create smaller, more permanent ponds within the large, intermittent lake bed, and to rehabilitate the problem areas for further urban and agricultural expansion through windbreaks, revegetation, agricultural irrigation, and drainage improvements.
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The village is situated on a ridge next to "'Aaiha plain "', an intermittent lake that forms a near perfect circular shape, approximately in diameter and enclosed by mountains and the ridge on the west.
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""'Saltonia " "'is a genus of spiders with the sole species " "'Saltonia incerta " "', a rare spider only known from California, United States, where it occurs on the shores of the Salton Sea, among salt-crusts in several dry or intermittent lake-beds, and from a small island in the Gulf of California.
