Generated run off is less erosive and less polluting as crop residues reduce sediment transport into river waters.

The sustained imposition of austerity measures and repeated funding shortfalls since 1993 continued to exert an erosive effect on the quality of UNRWA services.

The Internet could and should be used as a new resource for developing interregional and international links among socially disadvantaged people. 62. Mass media could be used more responsibly, recognizing that some types of information can be disempowering. Satellite television and the Internet, for example, can be used to advocate mass consumerism, and their content can be erosive and insensitive to local cultures and traditions.