Sentence examples for parched state from inspiring English sources
In response to another emergency, President Obama called Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on Wednesday to express concern about wildfires that have ravaged the parched state.
This year, California imposed emergency state-wide water use reductions for the first time in history, after another heatwave punished the parched state in the fourth year of what is said to be the worst drought in a millennium.
Rajasthan, a parched state with a long history of drought-relief works, comes closer to fulfilling that promise than anywhere else, providing 68 days of work on average in the year to March 2008, according to a survey published in Frontline, an Indian newsweekly.
The order mandates a 25% reduction in water usage for cities and towns across the parched state.
That's a lot of snow and great news for a parched state.
An April storm moving over Southern California is expected to bring rain and a chance of thunderstorms to much of the parched state this weekend, forecasters said Saturday.
If residents from parched states follow, so much the better.
Heavy rains and snow have recently brought some hope to the parched states of Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, where the drought is easing.
In this week's issue of the magazine, David Owen reports on the disappearing Colorado River, which, he writes, has been "so altered and controlled" as to become a kind of canal — a force for powering turbines and irrigating crops and filling reservoirs, every gallon owned by the parched states of the American West.
In this week's issue of the magazine, David Owen reports on the disappearing Colorado River, which, he writes, has been "so altered and controlled" as to become a kind of canal a force for powering turbines and irrigating crops and filling reservoirs, every gallon owned by the parched states of the American West.
In Texas the worst drought, known as the Drought of Record, parched the state from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, with catastrophic consequences for land, livestock and people.
