Sentence examples for depth of droughts from inspiring English sources

Water stress has been a concern in the region for years, but worsening climatic conditions mean the depth of droughts have outpaced government capacity to build infrastructure and fix perennial problems, such as leaky urban water systems and over use of scarce water resources by industry and consumers.

The length and depth of the drought has placed extraordinary pressure on south-eastern reservoirs, sources of drinking water for a number of the nation's fastest growing urban areas.

Because it is so difficult and dangerous for outsiders to even visit areas controlled by the Shabab militant group, it is hard to gauge the full depth of this drought.

The paper is the first research published from a $12.3 million Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research-funded project, which aims to develop an in-depth understanding of drought tolerance in field-grown sorghum.

However, similar in-depth characterization of drought-ecosystem interactions has lagged in Northeastern U.S. forests, with previous approaches largely restricted to broad classification of drought tolerance based on species' traits or growing conditions.

The breadth and depth of nutritional and drought-related needs in the Horn of Africa compelled UNICEF to activate its highest level of emergency response, rapidly mobilizing the entire organization to funnel human and financial resources to meet needs in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

"In the depths of the drought," he said, "we got down to about 123 gallons".

The watering regimes were (a) control, consisting of a main plot of well-watered plants throughout the experiment, which received 100% reposition of the water lost daily and a minimum soil humidity of -0,025 MPa at 15 cm of depth, and (b) drought stress, which consisted of 50% reposition of the water lost daily from anthesis on.

The report is the latest in a series of studies that have sought to characterize the depth of California's four-year drought and place it in a broader historic context.

However, during intermediate drought, as the depth of the groundwater increases, the downward trend in the tree rings was reversed because of changes in the physiology of the tree.

Soil moisture was modelled in the range of 0 0.3 m to reproduce the impact of drought on the main rooting depth of grassland communities (Tasser & Tappeiner, 2005).