Sentence examples for past droughts from inspiring English sources

But, in past droughts, thermoelectric plants came to the rescue.

Lamont scientists crossed most of Asia to sample sites (green dots) to reconstruct past droughts.

Past droughts have spurred renewed interest in water reuse projects, and the current one may be no exception.

Despite the severity in some areas, the effects are not as widespread as in some past droughts.

Past droughts have stress tested California's water management institutions, revealing vulnerabilities that could impair effective adaptation to climate change.

Tree rings suggest that some past droughts that occurred well before records began in 1895 were even worse than the one in the 1950s.

But with the combined data, we can make comparisons between the magnitudes of current and past drought.

Reconstructions of water-year precipitation for Klamath Falls, Oregon (extending 1564 2004 and 1000 2010 CE) were developed to compare past drought severity with drought severity of the instrumental record (extending 1896 2011).

Three months ago, incidents of looting of markets and food lorries, some by the simply hungry, some by Brazil's radical landless movement, hurt the re-election prospects of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and jolted officials into action.In the past, drought meant starvation for people and animals alike, prompting a tragic exodus to coastal cities until rain returned.

Most elders among Afar pastoralists bear past drought events and its severity in their mind.

Consequently, while δ13C is a useful indicator of past drought events, changes in these isotopic signatures may not necessarily translate directly to changes in annual growth (Fig. 3).