The word 'driest' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that has the least amount of moisture or liquid, or something that is the least attractive or interesting. For example, "The desert is the driest place on Earth."
Stretching towards Peru and Bolivia, it lays claim to being the driest desert in the world, with only 0.01mm of rain falling in an average year.
At an altitude of 3,500 metres, it looks down on the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth, and on each side snow-capped volcanic peaks stretch away for hundreds of kilometres to the north and south.
The world's driest desert is Earth's most Mars-like environment, with its vast salt flats and coloured lagoons.
"Underlying demand was much higher than we expected, and sales appear to have been bolstered by the driest March weather for six years".
It is high, dry (one of the driest places in the world) and unpolluted.
China is hoping for a shale-gas revolution but does not have enough water for it since most of the gas reserves are in the driest parts of the country.
The TWDB forecasts a total statewide shortfall of 8.3m acre-feet by 2060, because the regions that have enough water cannot simply pipe it to the driest places.
California, for example, has suffered a drought for the past two years and experienced the driest spring in recorded history.
Low rainfall so far during the main June-September wet season—June was the driest in over 80 years—has raised fears that poor harvests will weaken GDP growth in India's agriculture-dependent economy.
Piauí is one of the country's driest areas but still gets a third more water than America's corn belt.Of course, having spare water and spare land is not much good if they are in different places (a problem in much of Africa).
And while grain prices have picked up, drought has once again brought billions of dollars of losses to farms and ranches.A huge swathe of farmland spanning central Saskatchewan and Alberta, and angling northwest into British Columbia's Peace River valley has suffered its driest winter and spring in at least 50 years (and 70 in some districts).
