Sentence examples for parched cities from inspiring English sources

[Bloomberg Businessweek] China says it will invest $10 billion this year in its South-North Water Diversion project, which will supply parched cities in the north.

Governor Jerry Brown is championing a proposed $14bn£9bnbn) tunnel system to divert water from northern California to southern California's parched cities and farms.

Mr Pickens hopes to pipe 150,000-200,000 acre-feet of water from the vast Ogallala aquifer in the Texas Panhandle to the state's parched cities. (An acre-foot, enough water to cover an acre a foot deep, is 326,000 gallons, or some 1.2m litres).The cities would pay on a sliding scale, depending on the distance Mr Pickens has to pump the stuff.

For much of its history, New York was a parched city.

For much of its history, however, New York was a parched city.

An inch and a half is coming in from the north, the first significant storm in nearly a year for this dusty and parched city.

Living in this parched city of shanties, strip clubs and American-owned assembly plants has not been easy for a long time.

Outside of a few scattered showers in the San Gabriel Valley, Tuesday's rain clouds had mostly left the parched city behind as of 2 30 p.m., according to Joe Sirard, a meteorologist at the service's Los Angeles weather center.

Lowell suggested they might be channels that carry water from the melting polar caps to the parched equatorial cities.

Months without rain had parched the city, and a major fire the previous night had exhausted firefighters and damaged equipment.

DALLAS, July 22 (Reuters) - When the going got tough due one of with worst droughts in a century, the parched Texas city of Wichita Falls got going with its program to recycle sewage water for drinking.