The drought in the region has been so severe that quiver trees are struggling to survive.
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Glickman, who visited the drought-stricken region earlier this week, criticized the 1996 farm bill as being inadequate for dealing with situations such as those faced by North Texas farmers and ranchers.
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Moreover, a prolonged investment drought in the region will hurt the major American industries -- notably aerospace, high technology, construction equipment and financial services -- that have prospered most from the Asian boom.
To understand how dependent industry is on water, look no further than the southeast U.S. Last summer, a severe drought in the region forced a nuclear power plant, Browns Ferry, to shut down one of three reactors for a week.
In 2005, severe drought in the Amazon region saw widespread wildfires that turned the rainforest into a carbon source.
Given this region's history of drought, the IMF is recommending that governments avoid dependency on hydropower as an engine of growth.
Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says.
The news from the Horn of Africa today is horrific: Drought and famine are spreading throughout the region, exacerbated by the derailment of aid shipments by the militant group al-Shabab, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths with little resolution in sight.
Catherine Bertini, head of the World Food Programme, visited areas of the Horn of Africa hardest hit by the drought that threatens up to 16m people in the region.
The Ethiopians hope for 440MW of geothermal power against their present energy capacity of 790MW. Geothermal could be an alternative to hydroelectric dams, which provide most of the region's power but are vulnerable to drought.
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Coupled with a three-year drought, that makes farming hard, even in a fertile region.
Comparative hydrological drought-flood risk modelling at Northern Mexico and West African Sahel region.
In Part 3 , we look at how the main water source for most of this region, the Colorado River, has been affected by drought, and how that may affect the water politics in the upcoming decades.
And the best of times this is not: The ill effects of a years-long drought have been exacerbated by the tradition of grazing herd animals indiscriminately over a large region, so that topsoil never replenishes.
The storm brought moisture to a region of the country that has been parched for nearly a year, engulfed in the worst drought in decades.
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