Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Namib Sand Sea' has mentioned 'Water' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| [6] Most of the desert wildlife is arthropods and other small animals that live on little water, although larger animals inhabit the northern regions. | WIKI |
| Near the coast, the cold ocean water is rich in fishery resources and supports populations of brown fur seals and shorebirds, which serve as prey for the Skeleton Coast's lions. | WIKI |
| Morning fogs coming from the ocean and pushing inwards into the desert are a regular phenomenon along the coast, and much of the life cycle of animals and plants in the Namib relies on these fogs as the main source of water. | WIKI |
| The dry climate of the Namib reflects the almost complete lack of bodies of water on the surface. | WIKI |
| Warm waters with depth and associated water flows from the northwest were first fully catalogued by Sea Fisheries researchers, Cape Town (L V Shannon et al.). | WIKI |
| The Namib fauna mostly comprises arthropods and other small animals that can live on little water, but a few species of bigger animals are also found, including antelopes (such as oryxes and springboks), ostriches, and in some areas even desert elephants. | WIKI |
| Before the 20th century, some San roamed the Namib, gathering edible plants on the shore, hunting in the interior, and drinking the juice of the tsamma melon for water. | WIKI |
| Fog serves as the primary source of water and this is harvested in extraordinary ways while the ever-mobile wind-blown dunes provide an unusual substrate in which well-oxygenated subsurface sand offers respite and escape for xe2x80x98swimmingxe2x80x99 and xe2x80x98divingxe2x80x99 invertebrates, reptiles and mammals. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (x): The property is of outstanding importance for the in-situ conservation of an unusual and exceptional array of endemic species uniquely adapted to life in a hyper-arid desert environment in which fog serves as the primary source of water. | UNESCO |