Sentence examples for parched areas from inspiring English sources

In response, the chief minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, offered free water tankers to Karachi's most parched areas.

Water use can be a factor as well, especially in the parched areas where virtually all of the proposed plants would be built.

Farmers in parched areas who rely on irrigation have been hit doubly hard, by the drought and the rising cost of oil to drive the irrigation systems.

In the Central Valley, in Gold Country, and in other parched areas of the state, thirty million people breathed a sigh of relief.

One wishes that, rather than let it all run into the ocean, we could attempt to capture and transport it, by a combination of barge and pipeline, to some of the parched areas of the world.

They soak up vast amounts of water in parched areas of Spain whose citizens in cities such as Seville are on occasional summer days banned from turning on their taps for more than two hours.Intensive production is also a main cause of desertification and soil erosion across southern Europe.

One home burned shortly after the fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a parched rural area about 40 miles southwest of Orlando.

In some Northeastern communities, officials are comparing the current drought with the ones that parched the area in the early 1980's and the mid-1960's, and others are going back to the Depression and the end of the 19th century for comparisons.

In pure desperation, she and the children set out on foot recently, tracking three days across parched terrain and areas of famine and war to come to dust filled Dollo Ado in search of food and water.

American soldiers are offering major reconstruction and relief aid in an area parched for it.

Fire crews also have battled numerous small brushfires this summer, most charring only a few acres but still threatening homes in built-up areas along parched foothills.