Taking Action Against Drought
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With all there is to enjoy in the change from spring to summer in North Carolina, there's a downside that's become just about as dependable: drought conditions.  The U.S.
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The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.
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IT'S PROBABLY TOO EARLY to call it a drought, but anyone with a vegetable garden, flower patch or lawn knows that we are in a significant dry period. As of Monday, Springfield was about 4 inches behind the amount of precipitation it would normally expect.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 25--ROTATIONAL CROP fallowing, if done properly, can allow a farmer or group of farmers on an irrigation canal to lease water temporarily for much-needed income while holding on to the permanent water rights.
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By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Mar. 7--3M Co. has a message for Washington and Dakota counties: Stop worrying about your water.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--Several days of cooler, damper conditions may be the beginning of the end for both the Gunflint Trail fires and, just maybe, the summerlong drought.
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By Kevin McKenzie mckenzie@yourappealcom  The driest spring on record may soon take its toll on lawns and has already extinguished open burning in Munford and Atoka.  The city of Munford is asking its water customers in Munford and Atoka to conserve water.
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A drought in the Southeastern United States has become so severe that some cities are just months away from running out of water.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--HUTCHINSON -- Disaster aid for drought-stricken parts of the state, money challenges to the 2007 farm bill, changes to farm policy, and gaining markets for U.S.
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Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds.
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By USA Today  DENVER -- The fast-growing states of the arid Southwest must plan for more severe droughts because of a regional warming trend that shows no signs of dissipating, says a new assessment of the Colorado River's water supply.
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  DAMRAT SURMI, Sudan - Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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By Mike Branom, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 6--Barely a month into 2006, the potential for wildfires in Arizona was off the charts.   The state was locked in a recordbreaking dry spell, a symptom of a drought 11 years old with no end in sight.
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By Huang Zhiling  CHENGDU: Continued droughts have left nearly 4 million people in Southwest China's Sichuan Province short of drinking water.  Since early last month, Sichuan has witnessed a rise in rainfall.
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By TONY SPILDE  By TONY SPILDE  Sen. Byron Dorgan plans to use a newfound position of power to change the way the government handles drought emergencies on the Missouri River system.