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| This site deals with Drought and its effect on Human,Animal,Plant and Marine life.According to the intensity and,or the location of the drought; any of the above stated would be affected to some extent. |
-DROUGHT-
| Saturday, October 28,2000
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-As many as one million Afghans could die of starvation this winter, unless the international community quickly provides aid to cope with the worst drought in the country in decades; World Food Program officials reported on Friday.The WFP is presently feeding 2.3 million Afghans; but is running out of funds, Gerard van Dijk, the food program's director for Afghanistan, told reporters in the Pakistan capital. Unless there are more contributions, the WFP will run out of food by February, when bitter winter is at its worst, Dijk said. |
| Thursday, October 19,2000
COLLEGE STATION, Texas-Drought has caused $1.1 billion in damage to state agriculture so far this year; Texas A&M University economists reported on Wednesday.The university's Texas Agricultural Extension Service estimated that cotton losses alone, reached $485 million; as fields, particularly those without irrigation systems, withered under the summer's record spell of heat and lack of rain.The rains this week, as warned by experts, did not come close to ending the statewide drought. Total agricultural losses were estimated at $820 million last week. Officials increased the total figure after factoring in damage to fall crops and expenses incurred by ranchers. |
| Wednesday, July 5,2000
BUCHAREST, Romania-Hundreds of wildfires burned across southern Europe on Tuesday; as the region remained in the grip of a heat wave that has driven temperatures as high as 120 degrees. In the Balkans, the sizzling temperatures accompanied the worst drought to strike the region in 50 years. The temperatures had already caused extensive crop losses in late May.About 100 fires were still burning on Tuesday in Romania. Italy's RAI television reported on Monday, that temperatures on the island of Sardinia approached 120 degrees. |
| Monday, May 1,2000
BEIJING-Mongolians are depleting
critical stocks, long before the summer harvest, as more of their herds, weakened by the drought and snowstorms, die, as the Red Cross warned.Already, more than 2.2 million cows, horses, camels, sheep and other livestock have died since the severe and early storms began last year, as reported by the Red Cross on Saturday. Within a month, at the start of the summer growing season, the number of dead animals will more than double to 5 milion, the Red Cross said.Rural Mongolians depend on their herds for food and wool; and use the animals to sell or barter for needed goods. The devastation of the herds has kept families from buying extra food in the lean months leading up to the harvest at the end of summer.One quater of Mongolia's 2.7 million people are now facing a period of uncertainty over food supplies, the aid group reported in a statement. The Staff, after having visited one badly affected area, was told that herders had already consumed their summer supplies of dried meat. |
| Friday, April 28,2000 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Water wells were bone dry, camel carcasses rotted in the blistering sun; and entire villages in Southern Afghaninstan talked of leaving the drought-ravaged area for neighboring Pakistan, a World Food Program official said on Thursday. After four days of traveling from village to village, in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar and Zabul provinces, Khalid Mansour, an information officer for the organization in neighboring Pakistan, said the situation was desperate. The namads of Afghanistan, called Koochis, have lost up to 80 percent of their cattle, due to the severe water shortage. Villagers, desperate for a drink of water, have begun digging wells with their bare hands. Some reached at least six feet deep, only to find dirty saline(salty)water. |
THERE IS MUCH MORE TO COME----YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU WAITED.
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