Sentence examples for rainfall shortage from inspiring English sources

But the harvests always fail because of rainfall shortage.

The aid was announced by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns on a visit to South Dakota, one of the states affected by a severe rainfall shortage and extreme heat.

Mr. Principe said other factors that helped deplete the three Delaware system reservoirs were a 10-inch rainfall shortage in their watershed since summer, and the city's heavier-than-usual reliance on the three reservoirs this year because of repairs to aqueducts in the Croton system in Westchester and Putnam Counties.

Drought initiation time (DIT): the starting month of the rainfall shortage period, which indicates the beginning of a drought.

(2) Drought termination time (DTT): the month when rainfall shortage became sufficiently small so that drought conditions no longer persist.

Weather index insurance provides protection for vulnerable households against specific weather shocks (e.g. rainfall shortage or flooding) by using historical rainfall, yield and related agronomic and weather data (Osgood et al. 2007; Barnett et al. 2008).3 A contract is signed between an insurer and a policy holder in advance.

With India's Meteorological Department recording rainfall shortages across the country, several ratings agencies and financial analysts have sharply downgraded an Indian economy once projected to grow by more than 7 percent this year.

During the group discussion with key informants, participants stated that rainfall shortages (both during the long and short rainy seasons), land privatization, decrement (decrease of grazing lands in terms of size), and population growth, as well as issues over climate change, are seen as crucially constraining factors of crop production and productivity.

There is no shortage of rainfall in Florida.

But the situation in Atlanta is an example of what can happen when growth and a shortage of rainfall collide.

Narasimha said the government had released funds to affected regions where a crippling shortage of rainfall had forced the rationing of drinking water to some communities.