Lightning can reach the parched soil and possibly ignite additional fires, according to Hennen.
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For some villagers, desperation reigns as they struggle to find work in the parched crop fields.
The project will also capture steam for use as water in the parched country.
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Higher volumes are like water to parched throats for brokers like Nomura Securities (NYSE: NMR).
Most of Ethiopia's 7m pastoralists are Muslim and the parched lands they roam are particularly combustible.
For days, then weeks, there were long, parched fields and stretches of marshland clogged with the dead.
The dry weather parched pastures and drove up feed costs, forcing many ranchers to cull their herds.
The country has 2, 000 tons of fresh water for each inhabitant while parched Australia has 25, 000 tons.
The BOJ has announced it will pump voluminous liquidity into Japan's credit-parched economy, regardless of interest rates.
In Colombia drought has parched 5, 000 square kilometres of pasture and 2, 000 of maize, sorghum and soya.
Or even a huge, thirsty one: the entire globe, for instance, which in many regions is painfully parched.
As you'd expect, parched places like San Antonio, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Tucson are also on the list.
With the right sort of investment, he reckons, the sertanejos can thrive in their parched patch of Brazil.
But exploiting the surplus would require much more trade in food from damp spots to the parched ones.
On Twitter, some Texas and Oklahoma residents were beseeching followers to do a rain dance for the parched states.
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Like much of the East Coast, Maine has been parched by severe drought.
Otherwise the epidermis becomes parched, resulting in micro-cracks in the skin and lips.
So, too, is cotton: it used to grow on big, disease-prone bushes in the parched north-east, and was hand-picked.
The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
The landscape in the reserve is parched, the acacia scrub withered and the soil dry, thirsty for the coming rains.
One day Serlin decided to take a break from the scrap yard and get a soda to refresh her parched throat.
For many motorists, that means hours spent crawling along parched beach highways or getting stuck behind slow-moving RVs in national parks.
McCHESNEY: Harris County Judge Robert Eckles said that city Metro buses would be loaded with water to deliver to parched motorists.
Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Indeed, images of the dry, parched, arid, almost certainly lifeless surface of another planet lit up Twitter like a Christmas tree.
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He was still there when the Gladiators began the last 10 overs needing 78, a realistic target on a brown, parched outfield.
It sounds great in theory: using human ingenuity to make fresh water for the most parched state from the world's biggest ocean.
It will be an improvement on today's parched times, but it will probably not be enough for all the newcomers to survive.
The summer months tend to be a dry period for the central U.S., limiting the chances for rain to replenish parched soil.
But on a trek to the Bedunge Swamp with 12 armed rangers, your correspondent found a parched and desolate landscape of fear.
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