South struggles to cope with drought
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Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency for 85 counties in the state Saturday.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Severe drought and record heat in Southern California are making March feel like July, and with dangerous results.
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With an epic drought gripping the region, Georgia lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a network of state reservoirs, while the governors of Alabama and Florida warned that Georgia's consumption threatens their downstream states.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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ATLANTA _ North and South Carolina are fighting over a river. In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniels whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers. And in Georgia, the governor is praying for rain.
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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By Shelley Byrne, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 25--The rain is over, but the trouble is just beginning for some of those who live near creeks and rivers.
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Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them
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Drought, AIDS and chronic  poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho,  Swaziland and Zimbabwe are putting hundreds of thousands at  risk of hunger, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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While the south-east of Australia has gone through years of drought, new research shows the rest of the country including the centre, is getting wetter.
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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.
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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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A thin winter green  carpets Australia&#39;s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging  the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation&#39;s food bowl.
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According to officials in the state of Georgia, one solution to a drought gripping the normally soggy Southeast is to take up the battle cry of "Man versus Mussel."
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An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.
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There is still a drought in the South East despite recent heavy rainfall, the Environment Agency says.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.