The drought now blighting the vast, arid basin of land that stretches from northern Kenya through central Somalia and into eastern Ethiopia is among the worst anyone has seen.

They fear that their land, like the Owens Valley, will become a dust bowl, its water diverted to build a vast city in an arid basin.

Through elaborate irrigation systems this arid basin has been converted into one of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world.

The red bed sediments of the Red Hills were deposited in an arid continental closed basin that formed within the Pangaean supercontinent during the Permian Period.

The Great American Desert, as settlers called the arid basin, is a sponge.

The valley is an arid basin surrounded by mountains that range in color from pink to ash gray, which makes for picture-perfect sunrises and sunsets.

How many people are you going to squeeze into your deadly little arid basin?

Indian Wells Valley is an arid north-south basin in east-central California.

Las Vegas is situated within Clark County in an arid basin on the desert floor, surrounded by dry mountains.

The Salt Shrub Valleys ecoregion is composed of arid basins formerly inundated by Pleistocene lakes.