Sentence examples for parched region from inspiring English sources
But to a profoundly parched region, the downpours were little more than an impressive illusion.
That is water, and its vital importance in a parched region.
The local paper, the Merced Sun-Star, is reporting that residents are irate at the coffee behemoth for pulling water from the parched region.
But while southern China is relatively wet, the north, home to about half of China's population, is an immense, parched region that now threatens to become the world's biggest desert.
They are the casualties in a profoundly parched region: the yellowed lawns; the scorched median strips on highways from Westhampton, N.Y., to West Orange, N.J.; and the orangy brown tree on the island in the lake in Central Park.
Attendance dropped sharply since the beginning of the year, as many families left the parched region with their flocks, some even crossing into war-torn Somalia in search of food.
Meanwhile from the south-west of the United States to the parched regions of northern China, major water users across economies continue on their current unsustainable path.
Water conservation is another concern for policymakers on current trends coal could account for a quarter of China's water use by 2020 and coal reserves are mainly in the most parched regions.
Although a new forecast from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center suggests that this dangerous weather pattern could revive in the fall, many in the parched regions find themselves in the unlikely position of hoping for a season of heavy tropical storms in the Southeast and drenching monsoons in the Southwest.
A fifth of the total would go north toward Catalonia and the big (and thirsty) industrial metropolis of Barcelona; the rest would go south to the parched regions of Valencia, Murcia, and eastern Andalusia.In its first version the scheme was even grander: its aim was to treble today's transfer.
Patagonia is the cold, parched, windy region that extends some 1,200 miles (1,900 km) south of the Pampas, from the Colorado River to Tierra del Fuego.
