Sentence examples for drought causes from inspiring English sources

Say a prolonged drought causes major cities in the American Southeast or Southwest to run out of water; both regions have large urban populations pushing against upper limits of water supply.

Tim Weiner (NYT) ASIA TAJIKISTAN: DROUGHT CAUSES FOOD CRISIS The World Food Program, a United Nations agency, said that a drought that has crippled agriculture in western and central Asia has left more than a million people facing severe food shortages in Tajikistan.

His selfish and unprincipled uncle is jealous, and demands a portion of Wang Lung's new wealth, while Wang Lung, obsessed with his desire to acquire more land, spends all the family savings; a drought causes a poor harvest and the family suffers from lack of food and from their envious, starving neighbors' looting of the little dried beans and corn they have left.

1974-75 - Severe drought causes widespread starvation.

2002 - Drought causes crops to fail across southern Africa.

In other regions, summer drought causes an earlier end to the growing season, overall reducing growing season length.

Massive crop failures and drought cause havoc.

Can Living With Drought Cause Trauma?

Was the recent extreme Mediterranean drought caused by us?

Then drought caused reservoir levels to drop alarmingly.

An even darker possibility is that a Western drought caused by climatic variation and a drought caused by global warming could arrive at the same time.