Several local pressure groups paint this facility as being a cause of concern with land loss, excessive traffic and an insufficient water supply.

The most important negotiation goal of the Chilean government was to negotiate the maritime boundary without land loss.

The island is suffering severe land loss to the sea due to coastal erosion.

Over and above the land loss, most of the reservations' prime agricultural land was included in the loss.

Katrina and Rita destroyed 217 square miles - nearly 10 times our state's annual coastal land loss.

Records of the annual land loss exist since 1870.

If even the 2001 estimates from the United Nations panel are correct, they say, there will be "major land loss."

His study found that coastal surges increased 8 to 10 feet from 1950 to the 1990's because of land loss.

Furthermore, agricultural land losses will occur as a result of soil salinization.

"The biggest cause of action in the United States would be Louisiana, where land loss is approaching 50 square miles a year."