Sentence examples for scarcity of rain from inspiring English sources

The charity said several countries were already facing a "major emergency", such as Ethiopia, where 4.5 million are in need of food aid because of a prolonged scarcity of rain this year.

The climatic conditions are harsh including scarcity of rain, intense sunshine, high evaporation, dry air and blowing sand.

Due to scarcity of rain attenuation data in Nigeria, the measured point rainfall rates with 1-min integration time, range 0.001%≤%p≤1.0%[13]], were used for calculating the terrestrial attenuation over seven geographically spread locations.

Several sowing dates are sometimes necessary as high plantlet mortality often occurs because of scarcity of rain at the onset of the rainy season.

Absence of rains, thus scarcity of grazing and water.

Rain water harvesting is a futuristic tool for mitigation of water scarcity problem through conservation and storage of rain water.

Perhaps the creative output is due to months of rain or the scarcity of live music venues, but this year produced excellent releases.

Crop failure that directly causes scarcity of animal feed is also associated with lack of rain and drying of water sources (Tsegaye et al. 2013).