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South African Drought: No Relief in Sight
2016-02-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SOUTH AFRICA - In spite of wide spread rain over many parts of the drought-stricken summer rainfall area of South Africa, chances remain low that the impact of drought will soon be broken. Glenneis Kriel reports.
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New guidelines approved emergency drought relief funding
2015-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: "As we enter a fourth year of severe drought, more communities are likely to face difficulties with their water supplies and delivering safe drinking water," said Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the water board`s Division of Financial Assistance. The guidelines ensure communities and groups with the greatest need of drinking water receive funding. The communities probably lack access to water supplies or suffer from contaminated water and need financial assistance to maintain drinking water....
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Sri Lanka drought relief measures for farming families
2014-08-01 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco-Business: Sri Lanka`s government will roll out a relief programme to help vulnerable farmers cope with the effects of a worsening drought, as part of a wider effort to protect people from the frequent extreme weather events that are threatening the country's steady economic gains. "The impact of climate change impact has become severe now,' said Punchi Banda Jayasundera, Secretary to the Treasury and the man primarily responsible for setting national economic policy, as a 10-month-old drought dents agricultural...
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Wichita Falls drought prompts chemical relief
2014-07-07 09:35:49| Waste Management - Topix.net
Desperate to keep the precious little water left in its reservoirs from evaporating, the city of Wichita Falls may turn to a chalk-like powder for help.
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No Drought Relief in Sight For Desiccated West
2014-05-01 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: For anyone living east of the Mississippi River, where major tornado outbreaks, torrential rainfall and flooding have been the headlines of the past week, it's hard to imagine that 40 percent of the U.S. is experiencing some level of abnormally dry conditions, many of them extreme. Though the overall spread of dry conditions across the U.S. has diminished slightly over recent weeks, and about 15 percent over the past year, the drought hotspots in the West remain desiccated. The driest places...
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