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The Chinese authorities expect that the water resources in the country are going to be depleted by the year 2030. Fearing the worst, the Chinese govt. has already asked the responsible officials to take the necessary steps in the face of crisis....
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An analysis of new census figures has shown that Australia is suffering from an unprecedented “man drought”.
The statistics have revealed that there are...
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Drought has been one of the primary concerns of cultivators and has resulted in severe famines over the ages. That is why the recent development of drought resistant...
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AP, Charleston
First, there was last summer’s drought. Then came more bad news: skyrocketing fuel and fertilizer prices, and a wet spring that delayed West Virginia...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Baghdad
It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq _ a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the...
made popular Jul 10 2008
AP, Lubbock
In more than four decades of farming, South Plains cotton producer Rickey Bearden says he’s never seen an early growing season like this one.In the past month,...
made popular Jun 17 2008
AP, Sacramento
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water...
made popular Jun 5 2008
AP, Yellowstone National Park
New research suggests that several years of drought may have added a minute or two to the eruption cycle of Old Faithful geyser. The geyser used to erupt about every 61...
made popular Jun 4 2008
AP, Nairobi
Somalia is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in a decade, and the situation is deteriorating, an international aid agency said Wednesday.Worsening armed conflict,...
made popular Jun 4 2008
AP, Copperhill
Patrons at Patrick’s Pub and Grill drink their beer in Tennessee, but a walk to the restroom in the same building takes them across the state line to a dry county...
made popular Jun 3 2008
AP, Atlanta
What drought? Georgia’s governor has given the go-ahead to fill up outdoor swimming pools. The five-ring fountain at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park is...
made popular May 20 2008
Australia will need several years of heavy rainfall to reverse the devastating effects of a drought that has battered farm production.
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Trenton
Residents of Dade County have spent much of their history feeling ignored by the rest the state. For decades people had to cut through Alabama or Tennessee to get to...
made popular Apr 28 2008
AP, Atlanta
Lawmakers in drought-parched Georgia voted Friday to ask mapmakers to redraw their state’s northern boundary in hopes of tapping the Tennessee River, in a vote...
made popular Apr 5 2008
AP, La Pryor
Hal Jessee looks at a shovelful of dirt and assesses it as only a lifelong farmer can.”It’s not looking good,” says Jessee, 83, who farms 400 acres...
made popular Mar 24 2008
AP, Montgomery
Climate experts say drought conditions across the Southeast have improved dramatically with the help of recent rains, but the region is not in the clear yet.Only a...
made popular Mar 21 2008
AP, Jerusalem
Israel is suffering its worst drought in a decade and will have to stop pumping from one of its main sources of drinking water, the Sea of Galilee, by the end of the...
made popular Mar 19 2008
Brazil’s drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, Washington
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is acknowledging that White House-brokered water negotiations between Alabama, Florida and Georgia have failed to produce an...
made popular Mar 1 2008
AP, Atlanta
Drought-parched Georgia got a “cool wet kiss of friendship” Wednesday from neighboring Chattanooga, Tenn., in the form of a truckload of bottled water...
made popular Feb 27 2008
AP, Atlanta
Drought-parched Georgia got a “cool wet kiss of friendship” Wednesday from neighboring Chattanooga, Tenn. in the form of a truckload of bottled water...
made popular Feb 27 2008
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