Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.
Cattle drowned can be crudely counted (140, 000, says one estimate for Argentina's Santa Fe province, stretched along 800km of the Parana), and the loss of crops ruined by flood or drought can be reckoned, but the long-term effects may take years to show up.
When we reduce hunger in the world, or help a farmer recover from a flood or a drought, it strengthens the entire world economy.
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Comparative hydrological drought-flood risk modelling at Northern Mexico and West African Sahel region.
The positive side of the Tearfund report is that simple measures to "climate-proof" water problems, both drought and flood, have proven to be very effective in some areas.
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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.
The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.
Since this term is totally without meaning, she can then claim that the latest forest fire, the latest hurricane, the latest drought, flood, snow, cold snap, heat wave, or tornado were cause by man, and that scientist X said so.
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Tofteland held the farm together after his father was killed, survived drought and the great flood of 1993.
Dumfries and Galloway was put on flood watch while the subject of a drought order application.
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