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The Indus River Delta (Sindhi: سنڌو ٽِڪور), forms where the
Indus River flows into the Arabian Sea in Pakistan. The delta
covers an area of about 41,440 km² (16,000 square miles), and is
approximately 210 km across where it meets the sea. The active
part of the delta is 6,000 km² in area. The climate is arid, the
region only receives between 25 and 50 cm of rainfall in a
normal year. The delta is home to the largest arid mangrove
forests in the world,[1] as well as many birds, fish and the
Indus Dolphin.  Since the 1940s, the delta has received less
water as a result of large scale irrigation works capturing
large amounts of the Indus water before it reaches the delta.
The result has been catastrophic for both the environment and
the local population. As a result, the 2010 Pakistan floods were
considered "good news" for the ecosystem and population of the
river delta as they brought muc