Sentence examples for last droughts from inspiring English sources

This average yield would be slightly lower than in 2003 and 2007, the last droughts that damaged crops in France.

We also now realize that the terrible effects of these last droughts have been exacerbated by soil erosion and other forms of land degradation which have been allowed to develop over the years in semi-arid regions through mismanagement and poor land use.

We have had diminished rain and snowfall for the last three years, and our last drought was averted only because of a well-timed tropical storm.

A recent Public Policy Institute of California study found that more recharge occurred in the San Joaquin Valley last year than since the start of California's last drought, with the region experiencing its first positive groundwater balance since 2011.

The city's last drought emergency was in 1989.

Sarson first started looking into water efficiency in 2008, when California was experiencing its last drought.

A third said she lost 20 of her 30 goats in the last drought.

That was unusually high because of the drought, but only a climate-change denier believes that was the last drought we're going to see.

India's last drought came in 2009, but the broader economy was shielded because of government stimulus measures intended to offset the global financial meltdown.

As I walked around the area looking for other places to trap birds, I noticed that pieces of bone and teeth litter the sand, remnants from the 2004-2005 drorght, or perhaps the last drought in 2009.

Back in 1988, when the last drought caused a price spike, silos held 4.8 billion bushels, or six years' worth.