Despite severe drought shortages in California, the general public has resisted converting waste water into drinking water.
Another severe drought in 2010 is still being analyzed but researchers believe it could have been even worse.
Food production has been complicated by a severe drought that is draining lakes and reservoirs at an alarming rate.
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Like much of the East Coast, Maine has been parched by severe drought.
The severe drought, which has affected more than half of the country, subtracted 0.4 percentage point from overall GDP growth.
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In 2005, severe drought in the Amazon region saw widespread wildfires that turned the rainforest into a carbon source.
The company expects crop yields to be lower in 2012 owing to the severe drought in the U.S., resulting in high grain prices.
"In the period ahead, growth is likely to remain modest, reflecting the effects of the severe drought, " said Australia's finance minister Peter Costello.
The area is in the midst of moderate to severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Erosion-control practices and drought-resistant crop hybrids are just two examples of ways in which modern agriculture attempts to mitigate the impacts of severe drought.
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This time last year much of England was suffering a severe drought with seven water companies in the south east enforcing hosepipe bans and restrictions.
Meanwhile, Mali's inability to quell the insurgency on its own, combined with severe drought, has sent around 200, 000 people into Niger, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.
An uneven swath from northern to southwestern Colorado has severe drought conditions, while the rest of the state has either extreme or exceptional drought conditions.
And therefore, their water is considered 'interruptible' during a severe drought.
You might also have seen the recent panic over the severe drought in the US and its effect on the price of corn, wheat and other key commodities.
We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence.
We can choose to believe that super-storm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence.
Using it, he has built up a series of tree-ring chronologies from Thailand and Vietnam that indicate a period of severe drought across mainland South-East Asia in the early 1400s.
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Our goal at the SBA and across the Administration is making sure that these hard hit communities have the tools and the resources they need to navigate and recover from these severe drought conditions.
It turns out, the grocers of America are at it again but this time sharp increases in the food markets are going to be harder to conceal thanks to the severe drought of 2012.
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She then took out a loan against her house in order to grow maize but things did not go as well as she had expected due to a severe drought and she almost lost her house.
To understand how dependent industry is on water, look no further than the southeast U.S. Last summer, a severe drought in the region forced a nuclear power plant, Browns Ferry, to shut down one of three reactors for a week.
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.
The United Nations warns that hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes and millions more are at risk of running out of food in the Sahel, the area bordering the Sahara, which is experiencing a severe drought.
Other key fracking areas like New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are less obviously prone to drought, but climate models predict more frequent and longer heat waves during Northeast and Midwest summers, including severe drought in some regions (as well as more frequent flooding in spring).
Wheat prices have now risen 80% in a month, fueled mostly by news about a severe Russian drought and heavy rain in Canada.
Experts in the pharmaceutical industry are hopeful that this sustained bolus of new medicines is evidence that drug companies are coming out of a severe innovation drought over the last decade that saw the number of new medicines fall to little more than half its current level.
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"It's the most severe and expensive drought in 25 years, " USDA economist Timothy Park said.
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