Arid lands, surprisingly, contain some of the world's largest river systems, such as the Murray-Darling in Australia, the Rio Grande in North America, the Indus in Asia, and the Nile in Africa.

令人惊讶的是，干旱地区拥有着世界上最大的一些河流系统，如澳大利亚的墨累-达令河、北美的里奥格兰德河、亚洲的印度河和非洲的尼罗河。