Word: drought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Living virtually without rain in a country that is 97% desert, Egyptians depend on the world's longest river for irrigation, electric power, drinking water and transportation. Now, after a decade of drought that has left parts of central Africa on the brink of starvation, the Nile is running perilously low. For the first time since the Aswan High Dam was finished in 1970, serious shortages of water and hydroelectric power threaten Egypt...
...knows how long the drought will last. But with the population growing by a million every nine months, the country cannot afford to wait for rain. Egypt already imports more than half its food, and future demand will be even greater. Declares High Dam Engineer el Shaffei: "If we have less water, we have to change our ways. We will have to get all the benefit from every drop." After all, he notes, "water is life...
...wars continue in Ethiopia: one against drought and famine, the other between government forces and well-armed insurgents. Long-suffering Ethiopians are the losers in both. In recent weeks rebels in the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where close to 3 million people are at risk of dying from starvation, have escalated their campaign against the government by ambushing food convoys, attacking grain-distribution centers, mining roads, firing on transport planes, and rocketing airfields. By last week the civil war had virtually halted the relief program in Tigre. Regional warehouses are mostly empty because roads are too dangerous...
...drought has descended upon Madison since then, as the Badgers have been shut out of the NCAA Tournament until this year. Today, they enter as Western Collegiate Hockey Association champions, sporting a 28-12-1 record. They are seeded fourth from the West...
...have?" asks a peasant in the state of Guerrero who earns $10 a day from his poppy field, $8 more than the agricultural farmers. "We have to live." In Sonora the tale is told of an up-and-coming trafficker, known as El Cejaguera (Blond Eyebrows), who visited several drought-stricken farms, handed the proprietors cash- stuffed envelopes, then disappeared without a word...