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English translation: pools

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French term or phrase:	boulis
English translation:	pools
Entered by:	Angel_7

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23:47 Nov 18, 2006

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Social Sciences - Agriculture / boulis

French term or phrase: boulis

Listed as one of the potentials of hydraulics

L’existence de retenues d’eau, de boulis et de forages.

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pools

Explanation:
boulis are mares naturels ou artificielles (zie de link)= artificial or natural pools or ponds. I think that would fit in with the rest of the sentence.

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Note added at 9 hrs (2006-11-19 09:25:30 GMT)
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I found some articles where these were referred to as natural ponds/pools as well but most call these articifial, so I would go for that in this context