Sentence examples for consecutive droughts from inspiring English sources

Warmer temperatures alongside consecutive droughts could make up to 85% of rain-fed maize at risk of changes that may persist for decades.

In Syria, for example, wheat yields increased from 2.1 million tons to 5.0 million between 1991 and 2006, but consecutive droughts and war reduced production to 1.5 million tons.

In Thailand, sugar output is now forecast at 4.8 million tonnes, a decrease of about 11percentt from 2004/05, as a result of consecutive droughts.

Consecutive droughts have affected the country in the last few years while the ongoing conflict has made it extremely difficult for agencies to operate and access communities in the south of the country.

This can largely be attributed to UNICEF's response to the high rates of severe malnutrition in countries affected by severe and consecutive droughts in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel belt and South Asia.

The potential losses due to the devastating nature of the disease and attendant negative impacts on trade in poultry are a further blow in a region that is struggling to recuperate from the effects of consecutive droughts and other emerging high impact transboundary crop pests and animal diseases such as the fall armyworm and foot and mouth disease.

Southern California cities, where residents used more water than ever this February (pdf), as the state rolled into its fourth consecutive drought year.

To analyse the impact of drought on maize yield loss in Northeast China in current and future climate scenarios, the Composite Meteorological Drought Index (CI) is introduced to reconstruct the following drought indicators: drought accumulative days (DAD), drought accumulative intensity (DAI), and consecutive drought days (CDD).

A new generic approach was introduced through integrating a subset of the Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) into three generic empirical equations coupled with the application of two universally endorsed drought indices to assess the changes in hydrological patterns prior to, and after upstream watershed development twinned with consecutive drought spells.

It is the fifth consecutive drought year, California is parched.

However, with changing, environmental laws and requirements, and consecutive drought years, the balance is shifting to a greater reliance on groundwater [10].