Sentence examples for recurring droughts from inspiring English sources

East African leaders, meeting last week in Kenya, agreed to invest in solutions to recurring droughts.

The recurring droughts have affected 120,000 people, one in eight of the population.

Bahia's agriculture was severely threatened by recurring droughts in the latter part of the 20th century, but irrigation has ameliorated this problem.

Recurring droughts, coupled with falling prices for farm products like coffee, continue to wear away the possibilities for life in the countryside.

Researchers at the University of Florida, expanding upon a study they conducted six years ago that suggested that the Mayans were indeed victims of a prolonged drought, have now shown that the region suffered from recurring droughts, apparently tied to a two-century cycle of solar activity.

The County experiences recurring droughts with devastating losses of livestock.

In the Sahel region of Africa, for example, recurring drought harms human welfare and can contribute towards destabilization in the region.

Fishing has assumed greater importance as a food source following the loss of thousands of head of livestock during the recurring drought in the Sahel since the early 1970s.

In some regions of the world where water supplies are inadequate because of recurring drought and rapidly expanding populations, the recycling and reuse of treated wastewater is a virtual necessity.

West Texas has a long history of recurring drought, but under climate change, the south-west has been experiencing record-breaking heatwaves, further drying out the soil and speeding the evaporation of water in lakes and reservoirs.

Over-allocation of fresh water resources to consumptive uses, coupled with recurring drought and the prospect of climate change, is compromising the stocks of natural capital in the world's basins and reducing their ability to provide water-dependent ecosystem services.