| The sun beats down, melting the glaciers that feed water into the streams, irrigating settlements and creating oases of willows and poplars. |
| Every town must have oases of greenery where children can run and play and other leisure activities can take place. |
| The biological oases are open waters, called polynyas, where blooming plankton support the local food chain. |
| Throughout the deserts it was only dependably found at some waterholes and at various springs associated with oases. |
| Only the local fishermen know their way through the maze of tall reeds to the oases of lotuses and water lilies concealed within. |
| Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity. |
