People are naturally going to live near clean water sources, that way it's easier to survive, so people are more likely to live near or in an oasis than in a hot dry area like a desert.
<span>The outer edge of a meander, where material is being eroded, is called a cut bank.
A cut bank is found on the outside bank of a water channel and it continuously erodes. You can find a lot of them in more mature or meandering streams. </span>