Sentence examples for lands drying up from inspiring English sources

These included effects on livestock health, Prosopis thorns causing tyre punctures and flesh wounds, dense thickets reducing access to water points, roads, infrastructure and agricultural and range lands, drying up of water sources, reducing natural forest cover and the services from these forests, as well as providing refuge for thieves.

Mr. Govindan's land dried up.

As the value of water rises, more farmers are selling their irrigation rights to cities, letting their land dry up.

'A real risk of famine' The drought has escalated because rains have failed for two years, killing off crops and grazing lands, and drying up fresh water supplies.

In Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), set in 1920s Los Angeles, the beat-up private detective played by Jack Nicholson discovers that the city's water department is drying up land so that it can be bought up cheap.

Meanwhile, arable land and water supplies have been drying up, increasing poverty and driving farmers off the land.

A Climate Change Information Source: Drying Up?

If not, we will see the semi-arid land dry up".

By the time Napoleon occupied Cairo at the end of the 18th century, the land had dried up enough to allow the French forces to camp there.

Half of them are in Ethiopia, primarily in the Ogaden region bordering Somalia, where three years of drought has parched the land and dried up wells.

Most of the creeks and rivers that once veined the land have dried up as 60 years of pumping have pulled groundwater levels down by scores and even hundreds of feet.