Sentence examples for height of the drought from inspiring English sources

At the height of the drought, thought to be the worst in Nicaragua for 44 years, the government needed to provide subsidised rice and beans to stave off a hunger crisis.

Shares in Black Earth did not fare as well, rising 1.8 percent over the month ending Aug. 16, the height of the drought, as the company's fields are in the hardest-hit regions.

Karachi – the largest city in South Asia – is facing another summer of water shortages, one out of three of India's big cities are facing a water crisis, and at the height of the drought in São Paulo last year, 9 million Brazilians were subject to government-enforced water rationing.

At the height of the drought, surface water in most counties had either dried up or its level dramatically reduced.

Simard claims that in August this year, at the height of the drought in Centre Wellington, Nestle voluntarily reduced their water extraction by 20percentt.

A statewide analysis by The Times found that water conservation slid about 9 percentage points in June, July and August of this year compared with the same period in 2015, at the height of the drought. .

To test the role of climate as an inciting factor for SAD, a landscape-scale climate model was used to compare moisture status of declining and healthy aspen at the height of the warm drought in water year 2002.

After his 16-foot-deep well ran dry during the height of the last drought, Burr was forced to dig another that extended 45 feet deep.

In February 2014, before the height of the latest drought, the Yurok Tribal Council passed an ordinance to enforce a zero-tolerance policy, threatening growers with fines and seizures of property.

In some places in the county, 37 per cent of children under five were severely malnourished at the height of the current drought crisis.

Although the number of boreholes drilled on an annual basis has dropped from a peak of approximately 300 in 1996 (perhaps the height of the 90s drought mitigation measures) to as few as 75 in 2000, there is good reason to suggest that the provision of borehole water sources is a cost-effective approach and that funding for such will continue.