droughts in English

noun
1
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities.
synonyms:dry spelllack of rainshortage of water
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1. This reversed air flow causes India's droughts.

2. Droughts are occurring all over the planet.

3. Derivations and droughts Art Bandyings its zap enarthrosis and insufficiently linguistic

4. Water holes where alligators lived began to dry up in the droughts.

5. At the same time, rising temperatures could intensify storms, floods, and droughts.

6. Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union

7. Wattle is purpose - built to withstand the country's droughts, winds and bush fires.

8. - Address the increasing impacts of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union

9. 2007 is also not boding well with droughts, fires, floods, storms, and more.

10. After heavy rains, native grasses and flowering plants would sprout, but droughts always returned.

11. We risk a world of suffocating heat waves, severe droughts, disastrous floods, and devastating wildfires.

12. By 1996, she became deputy director of the provincial office for combating droughts and floods.

13. She began working as an office worker at the provincial office for combating droughts.

14. Floods and droughts associated with global climate change could undermine health in other ways as well.

15. By 2000 Rawla began to decline due to droughts and lack of water in the canal.

16. Take the case of Ninh Thuan province which suffers from recurrent hazards including floods and droughts.

17. Vietnam is one of the countries most exposed to natural hazards such as floods, typhoons, droughts and landslides.

18. Serious droughts occur about once every eight years, especially in the rice-producing southwestern part of the country.

19. They can also be affected by the region's periodic droughts, and their numbers fluctuate with these climatic cycles.

20. Droughts and floods, out-of-season rain and dry spells are affecting the welfare of millions of people.

21. Frequent droughts have left farmers debt-ridden, forcing them to sell their livestock and sometimes to commit suicide.

22. Since the late 1340s, people in the countryside suffered from frequent natural disasters, droughts, floods, and ensuing famines.

23. Hmong fArmers, who form the backbone of Twin Cities' fArmers markets, suffer disproportionately from disturbances like droughts

24. Both historical accounts and paleoecological studies reveal that these provinces have been plagued with droughts for centuries.

25. We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.

26. Collier, W; Webb, R (2002), Floods, Droughts and Climate Change, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0-8165-2250-2.

27. Incidentally, astrologers are predicting earthquakes, floods and droughts around April 1982, due to the alignment of the planets.

28. 6-2007, point 1.22.10 Commission communication — ‘Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union’:

29. About 92% of Bahrain is desert with periodic droughts and dust storms, the main natural hazards for Bahrainis.

30. As of Saturday, both of those seemingly interminable droughts had ended, meaning that only the wait for Magic Johnson remains.

31. Thus, it is threatened with absolute scarcity, as droughts and their duration are expected to double between 2071 and 2100.

32. They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin.

33. But when the scarcity came, when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

34. What scientists call climate change has resulted in extreme weather, including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves, and hurricanes worldwide.

35. 22 They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin.

36. The increased number of abscission zones induced by unfavourable environmental conditions enables the tree to avoid runaway embolism during excessive droughts.

37. There are frequent droughts in the Vipava valley due to the wind that very quickly dries out the wet soil.

38. For instance as oceans are warming and becoming more acidic, biodiversity is becoming reduced and changing currents will cause more frequent storms and droughts.

39. Similarly, floods and droughts are symptoms of a carbon cycle gone wrong: when soil is compacted or eroded, rain evaporates or runs off.

40. Hence, even during the severest of droughts, there is an acacia “seed bank” lying safe in the ground, just waiting to regenerate.

41. I descend to lave the droughts, Atomies, dust- layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; Q1

42. Further devastating droughts of the 1980s caused major depopulation of the Beja herds with losses estimated at 80 per cent of their animal wealth.

43. Now today, I insure farmers against droughts like those in the year of the cup, or to be more specific, I insure the rains.

44. Deadly Bushfires are burning across Australia, exacerbated by strong winds and a record-breaking heat wave as the country experiences one of its worst droughts in decades.

45. stresses that to combat water scarcity and droughts, absolute priority must be given to creating an economy that uses water efficiently and sustainably and that saves it

46. I descend to lave the droughts, Atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; Question 1

47. stresses that to combat water scarcity and droughts, absolute priority must be given to creating an economy that uses water efficiently and sustainably and that saves it.

48. The Chocó Department has suffered not only historical abandonment by the government, but also armed violence, floods, droughts, and starvation of its native indigenous and afro communities.

49. The government also invested more than A$2 billion to build a desalination plant, powered by renewable energy, as an 'insurance policy' against droughts affecting Adelaide's water supply.

50. The Corm is often the section of the stem that is used by the live plant as the storage center for nourishment during cold weather or summertime droughts or excess heat