aren’t edible to humans. There are water filters that will remove most of these contaminants but‚ they are usually pricey. In the West Coast of America‚ we live next to the Pacific Ocean which contains most of the water on Earth. Why are we in a drought despite promising facts? The reason is despite an abundance of water on Earth‚ we have access to merely one per cent of all the water on the Earth’s surface. The rest of the freshwater is hidden in ice caps or somewhere deep underground. The remaining
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An essay on the drought of 1991-95 in Australia1995 was a long-lived‚ El Niño related drought. It was one of the longest of the twentieth centuryand one of the most destructive in terms ofdamage to the physical environment. Largeareas of topsoil were lost and there was somedamage to vegetation and wildlife. As droughts occur frequently in Australia‚most native plants and animals are usually wellequipped to deal with them. However‚ introducedcrops and animals can be severely affected‚leading to
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reservoir still floods. It is decided that something is mysterious about the drought and it might be involved in Mulwray’s death. He meets with a man named Cross who owned all of the water supply in the area. Jake eventually learns from a farmer the truth behind the drought. He learns that it is made up so that farmers will sell their land for cheap‚ so people like Cross could buy the land. Once the dam that Mulwray
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To this day‚ California has been in a drought. The governor‚ Jerry Brown is struggling to create policies to prevent people from using large amounts of water. He has made proposals to reduce the water use in California by building tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase the supply of water. One of the reasons California is in a drought is because of our history of dealing with the gold miners using hydraulic mining to mine gold‚ and damming the Tuolumne River to provide water for
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the biggest reason leading The Dust Bowl occurred‚ the climate of The Great Plain’s region consists of an average of less than 20 inches of precipitation per year and winds normally reach the speed of 60 miles per hour. Scientists believed that the drought that caused the Dust Bowl Era between 1930 and 1937 occurred because of a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Where cool ocean surface temperatures reduced the amount of moisture entering the jet stream and directed it south to the U.S.‚ where it
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country-side of Australia called the outback is where they live and where they thrive. Australian weather is hot and dry‚ but these smart‚ brave Budgies find ways to deal with it and are so used to it. In Australia‚ they have many droughts throughout the whole year. These droughts affect the Budgie population greatly. Quite a few Budgies don’t survive for a while if they don’t have enough food available or water present. The weather and temperature in Australia can be
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A successfully influential poem ‘Drought’‚ written by William Ogilvie demonstrates the theme of the harsh Australian climate and its effect on farmers. This message of Australian farmers and their struggle during times of drought is conveyed through the authors’ use of poetic devices to influence the audience. The dominant mood created by the poet is empathy and compassion towards Australian farmers who remain persistent even through the tropical weather conditions. This is achieved through Ogilvie’s
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Our analysis of drought indices focuses on the five crops with the broadest geographic distribution and highest production in the U.S.: barley‚ corn‚ cotton‚ soybean and winter wheat (Figure 1). Data on crop production for each county are collected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and made available by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov). Only crop statistics under non-irrigated conditions were considered in this study. We created five
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the 2011 Record Drought in Texas By Marco Gamez Physical Geography 1. Worst Drought According to the National Weather Service‚ in 2011 Texas endured the single worst drought in it ’s history. During the drought‚ which began in October 2010‚ wildfires burned thousands of square miles and may have killed as much as half a billion trees (Tam 1). The weather was hot and dry with very little rain throughout the year. August 2010 through July 2011 saw the brunt of the worst drought with abnormally
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has been under drought conditions since La Niña‚ a weather pattern where the surface temperatures are cooler in the Pacific ocean‚ thus creating drier weather in the southern part of the United States‚ in 2011 (StateImpact‚ n.d.). Although this type of weather pattern is typically combated with the arrival of El Niño‚ which has the opposite effect‚ it failed to occur in winter of 2012 and central Texas was left with the driest conditions it has experienced since the lowest drought on record in the
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