Residents of Bulawayo have access to just one-third of the globally accepted 20-litre minimum for daily water usage – a situation that is complicated by nearly four years of drought, economic difficulties and the AIDS pandemic here.
In addition to the country's many other difficulties, a drought in 2000 killed off some four-fifths of the livestock in southern Afghanistan and crippled the remaining food production.
The Background section provides a general description of the study area, the problems and difficulties in drought mitigation decision making, and objectives of this study.
Devastating cycle of drought Adding to the difficulties facing Borena's children, some 550,000 people are now affected by the drought here.
However, the difficulty in regional drought identification is how to select a proper drought index for a specific study region.
However, the development of drought-tolerant varieties still represents a challenging task, being hampered by the occurrence of genotype × environment interactions, the difficulty of effective drought tolerance screening and a still partial understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plant drought tolerance (Richards 1996; Kumar et al. 2008).
Because El Niño/La Niña exerts a strong influence on global-scale atmospheric circulation, simultaneous consideration of La Niña summer and drought summer may increase the difficulty in understanding the mechanism of linkage between drought over Korea and the genesis frequency of TCs in the SWNP.
Arsenic contamination, groundwater depletion, flooding, drought, and salinity are major difficulties for the rural people to get safe drinking water from both surface and groundwater sources (Abedin et al. 2013).
There is no study yet on rice root under drought stress environment because of the difficulty of root sampling.
He noted many people in rural Australia were enduring difficulties, such as ongoing drought in western Queensland.
