Word: drought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...
...think it's going to be higher again this year, and it could be a lot higher if we have another drought," Wyss said. "Early signs don't look good. We haven't had much precipitation east of the Rockies...
With the after-effects of last summer's drought still in evidence, food prices one stop short of grocery store shelves were up 1.1 percent last month, the steepest increase since a 1.5 percent rise in January...
...everyone talks about the seven-year drought. And Cleary wants Boston to stop talking...
...Drought. Floods. Famine. Disease. Civil war. How could the situation in Sudan get worse? Last week it did, as workers staged a general strike that closed the airport in Khartoum and shut down most telephone and telex lines. Rumors of coup attempts swept the capital as angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding the head of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi...