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Keywords: this paper traces the recent development of water and grazing for domestic animals in the Arabian desert, ecological effects of modernizing the Bedouin and changing their pastoral nomadism to sedentary living were not planned nor widely realized, largely they have been the unforeseen side effects from the oil industry, grazing history, hydrology, wildlife, nomadism versus permanent settlement