To find out if your county has been declared a drought disaster area, view SBA's current disaster declarations page.
Proceeds will be donated towards the East African drought disaster.
The current drought has forced disaster declarations in 26 states and a spate of emergency conservation orders, including in Warrenton, where the city ordered residents to stop watering their lawns, shut down commercial car washes and banned and just about every other non-essential use of water.
Most older North Dakotans remain dependent on entitlements, she says, and local farmers are still one drought or hailstorm away from disaster.
So from issues ranging from dealing with the drought conditions -- a disaster emergency has been declared for more than half the counties all across the country.
Even without the drought, RPS mandates are already an economic disaster.
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It includes links to maps of current disaster declaration areas and a weekly weather and drought blog.
Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says.
Finally, while the Administration is exploring every possible avenue to provide relief from the impacts of the drought, Congress still needs to act to ensure that the needed disaster assistance is available to these communities.
It will also encourage the population to remain in place, and may even attract others to the area, leaving them all vulnerable to the next natural disaster, which is as likely to be a severe drought as further flooding.
Roberts added that in times of drought, flood or other forces of nature that hurt farmers, Congress generally passes disaster relief bills that cost billions and are bureaucratic nightmares.
More than half of all U.S. counties have been designated disaster zones, the Department of Agriculture reported, blaming excessive heat and a devastating drought that's spread across the Corn Belt and contributed to rising food prices.
Farmers across the United States are facing the worst drought in a generation, leading the USDA to declare 1, 369 counties in 31 states as disaster areas.
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