I believe the answer you're looking for is Southwest Asia, looking at a climate map, the drier areas are located to the southwest.
-Mountains provide us with freshwater, energy, food, biodiversity, and medicinal products – resources that may become very rare in the coming decades. They are also very prone to climate changes, land degradation, deforestation and natural disasters.
Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario
the river empties into the Atlantic Ocean
The lowlands west of Australia´s eatern mountain range are drained by the Murray-Darling River system, with its main headwaters in the <em>Great Artesian Basin.</em>