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Severe water shortage
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drought
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A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in its water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water . A drought can last for months or years, or may be declared after as few as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English drugað , drugoð "drought, dryness, desert," from Proto-Germanic *drugothaz , from Germanic root *dreug- "dry" (cf high / height ) with *-itho , Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns (see -th (2)). Drouth was a Middle English variant continued ...
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Winding picturesquely among the trees, well-worn trails led to the Goat-House, to the western slope where Williams lived, to the Aute Valley where the principal gardens of the cloth-plant had been laid out, to the yam and sweet-potato patches and plantain walks, to the rock cisterns Christian had insisted on building in case of drought, to the Rope, and to the saw pit, still used occasionally when someone was in need of plank.
One is away on the far Barcoo Watching his cattle the long year through, Watching them starve in the droughts and die.
Through drought and war, through the ripping apart of one way of life and the making of another, Beaux Reves stood.
The grasslands around us were turning yellow and brown from heat and drought, but Daphnia was watered by canals.
Drought, fire, dieback, desert spreading and spreading, while the heat mounts.
There has been another full-scale dieback in North Africa due to drought and lack of food reserves.
The droughts, hot winds and grasshoppers took them, as witness the Entryman and his wife who homesteaded this identical land in 1893 .
Old Labbers had later explained that forty years earlier a severe drought had struck the nations of the southeast.
Sometimes adaptations to protect the plant during seasons of drought, such as the rolling up of the thallus in many xerophytic Marchantiales, can be recognized, but more often a prolonged dry season is survived in some resting state.
Mount Mlanje when the rest of the range baked in the long African droughts.
The fauns or nymphs protected their trees, bringing them water in times of drought and harassing woodsmen who wanted to chop the trees down.
In a typical forest, what probably happens is that the preexisting ecosystem is hammered by few years of drought, says Steve Jackson, a paleoclimate researcher from the University of Wyoming.
Not a tree or shrub was to be seen, everything was rioting in summer heat and drought, while behind lay the last grand canyon of the mountains, dark with pines and cool with snow.
Shrunken by summer drought, it was hardly more than a chain of pools the biggest barely four feet deepdivided by narrow bars of gravel, through and over which the water trickled in glistening films.
Just as the glaciers and droughts of a pretechnical world must affect a people, so must we accept these long-term changes.