Explain the purpose of irrigation and how it has affected the environment of the Middle East. Your answer should be written in four or more complete sentences.

Poling our way along the inky green waterway, we glided upstream through quiet still-water bends in the river, where mats of fragrant white flowers had gathered, closing behind the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout and concealing any sign of our passage. —eric hansen, stranger in the forest: on foot across borneo, 1998 which of these items in the passage is an example of borneo’s flora? a. “the inky green waterway” c. “mats of fragrant white flowers” b. “still-water bends in the river” d. “the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout”