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Drought Summary
1,028 words, approx. 3 pages
Of all natural disasters, drought is the most subtle. Often, farmers cannot tell there is going to be a drought until it is too late. Unlike flash floods, drought is slow to develop. Unlike earthquakes, with destruction to the exterior environment,...
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Drought Summary
317 words, approx. 1 pages
Drought is a temporary hazard of nature occurring from a lack of precipitation over an extended period of time. Drought differs from aridity, a permanent feature of climate restricted to regions of low rainfall. Rainfall deficiencies caused by a...
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Drought Proverbs : World Proverbs
9 words, approx. 1 pages
Brackish water is sweet in a drought....
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Drought Information
1,673 words, approx. 6 pages
A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and...


News and Journals
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Climate experts: Midwest drought receding
4/20/2007: 574 words, approx. 2 pages
Dan Lilienthal says his farm can't take another dry summer. If the experts are right and current trends hold, he won't have to.The drought that prompted the federal government last year to declare an agricultural disaster area in 39 northern Minnesota counties is over in...
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Worst of drought spreading across South
6/15/2007: 502 words, approx. 2 pages
The choking drought that's killing crops and turning streams into dusty trails across the Southeast is expanding. Previously limited to the northern half of Alabama, the drought classified as exceptional has grown like an ink blot to extend from eastern Mississippi across Alabama into southeastern...
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Florida drought forces tough water rules
4/12/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
South Florida residents must cut water use by up to 30 percent under new rules approved Thursday in response to unprecedented drought conditions.The board of the South Florida Water Management District approved restrictions that call for a 30 percent reduction in water use in Palm...
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Governors, secretary in drought talks
10/26/2007: 343 words, approx. 1 pages
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne met with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue on Friday with the aim of keeping a tri-state fight over waning water supplies amid a severe drought from spilling into court.Neither the governor nor Kempthorne would say much about the meeting until Kempthorne gets...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Droughts
474 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay describes the four main types of droughts, why they occur, and how to prevent them.


 

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