Word: drought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rich farming areas of western Minnesota, still suffering the effects of last year's drought, now have a plague to contend with: millions of crop- destroying grasshoppers are creating conditions reminiscent of the Dust Bowl 1930s...
State law requires control measures on infested property. But chemical spraying, the only real choice in some areas, disturbs environmentalists. They say the more effective pesticides can wipe out virtually all insects in an area and may also threaten drought-weakened wildlife. Organic farmers fear that the chemicals will taint their crops, shutting them out of a lucrative market. Yet if nothing is done soon, the problems could multiply: the maturing locusts are expected to lay more eggs in August...
...poisoning of the environment is the most pressing problem facing the world, not just the United States. You ran your campaign in the Greenhouse Summer, the summer of drought, the summer of medical wastes washing ashore on America's beaches...
Although this winter's drought has badly depleted the Quabbin, Cambridge Water Superintendent John J. Cusack, Jr. said that the lack of precipitation had not badly affected Hobbs Brook or Stony Brook...
...reduce the problem of the drought, the City Council last night passed an order requiring the Water Department to implement conservation measures...