Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.

Due to low average annual precipitation, the whole of District Doda has been declared as Drought prone.

Drought and poor harvests from 1884 compounded the problems, with some families leaving for Western Australia.

Drought Relief Program buys cattle and sheep from area ranchers.

Drought from 1924 to 1926 drove many farmers broke.

The water supply was augmented in 1934, a year of serious drought, when the Federal Drought Relief Agency financed the installation of a water supply line from Burch Creek Canyon.

Drought can cause plants to suffer from water stress and wilt.

* FWD ( Famine, War, and Drought ) Campaign from USAID

Only one single was released from the album, " Desert Drought " which stalled at No. 45 in the charts.

However, the Piney Woods, the geographic area where they lived, was affected by the Great Drought, from 1276 – 1299 CE.

( 1999 ) " Drought Follows the Plow ", adapted from Floods, Famines and Emperors: Basic Books.

Drought and poor harvests from 1884 compounded the problems with some families leaving for Western Australia.

* Forest Fire, Flood and Drought Protection-protecting people, property and communities from related emergencies.

Drought conditions are common in spring and autumn ; from 1961 to 2009, there were 31 years with spring drought and 28 with autumn drought.

Flood Control and Drought Prevention Headquarters from Zhejiang Province, show that, as of 16: 00 yesterday afternoon, Zhejiang province tolls in direct economic losses amounting to 5. 46 billion yuan.

Drought can affect agricultural areas during long periods with little or no precipitation.

Drought, hail, disease, and insects take their toll of crops.

After approximately 1150, North America experienced significant climatic change in the form of a 300-year drought called the Great Drought.

* Great Drought.

Scientists debate the cause of the Classic Maya Collapse, but gaining currency is the Drought Theory discovered by physical scientists studying lakebeds, ancient pollen, and other tangible evidence.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and / or Desertification, Particularly in Africa is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.

* Drought leading to famine in China.

* Drought monitoring-Continuous observation of rainfall levels and comparisons with current usage levels can help prevent man-made drought.

Careful monitoring of moisture levels can also help predict increased risk for wildfires, using such metrics as the Keetch-Byram Drought Index or Palmer Drought Index.

* US Drought Monitor Current U. S. drought conditions

* Drought occurs in India.

Drought or grazing on sandy country will also affect rate of wear.

Drought in 1998 further damaged the sugar industry, but its recovery in 1999 contributed to robust GDP growth.

Drought is unusual dryness of soil, resulting in crop failure and shortage of water for other uses, caused by significantly lower rainfall than average over a prolonged period.

In 1935, the federal government formed a Drought Relief Service ( DRS ) to coordinate relief activities.

A 1935 report by the President's Drought Committee, covering the government's assistance to agriculture during 1934 through mid 1935, discusses conditions, measures of relief, organization, finances, operations, and results of the government's assistance.

Drought plagued the area in the early part of the 20th Century.

The Drought of 1930 – 31 hit Arkansas hard, given the area ’ s dependency on agriculture.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.