Sentence examples for danger of drought from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the danger of drought is ever present.

Funny in spring how they were saying that we were in serious danger of drought and that it would take years to fill the water table.

More recently, the long-range dangers of droughts, food shortages, floods and the perils of mass migrations of hungry peoples 20 to 30 years from now have been studied.

For one thing, though the months encroaching into summer actually got cooler after a record-warm March -- the opposite of what usually happens -- they won't necessarily spell a lessened fire danger after years of drought.

Then there are the dangers of increased drought and decreased drinking water.

What we have learned from history is that if people are faced with increased dangers of floods, droughts and other extreme weather, they will try to escape, resulting in population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions, leading to widespread and continued conflict.

Swamp-draining projects have added large tracts of cultivable land, and water-conservation works have reduced the danger of crop losses from severe drought.

A further 10 million people in Ethiopia, six million in southern Sudan and five million in Yemen were in danger of starvation after floods and drought, said the UN.

Then the rain of the final week did away with the danger of the heatwave becoming a drought – which was what happened in 1976, when a brilliant butterfly summer produced a population crash the following year, as caterpillars' food plants shrivelled and died in heat which lasted from June to September.

In Central America, crops are failing, millions are in danger of starvation, and if the drought doesn't break soon, even vessels transiting the Panama Canal will need to lighten their loads, which will increase prices for goods transported globally.

The greatest potential danger of climate disasters is not drought, flood, nor storm; it is a prolonged denial of its existence.