Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Sloan plan pushed for reservoir storage in upper tributaries of the Missouri River located in smaller dams, which would provide irrigation for 4.8 million acres in areas where the land suffered from drought. [2] The Sloan plan allotted 1.3 million acres of irrigated land in North Dakota. South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska were allotted ...
Policies that invest in greener infrastructures and support a switch to renewable energy sources should be key to fighting climate change.
The heat waves associated caused the deaths of seventeen people and overall damage from the Southeastern-state drought of 1993 was somewhere between $1 billion and $3 billion in damage (1993 U.S. dollars). [67] drought has caused over the United States damage amounting to an estimated $40 billion in 1998. [68]
The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave.Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from the southern United States, wreaking havoc on crops and water supply. [1]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Federal Drought Emergency Relief Assistance is a unit of Planning Commission under Ministry of Planning and Development to facilitate the implementation of the project in the drought-hit areas of all the provinces and territories and coordinate activities carried out in the provinces to mitigate the effects of drought. [1]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
In late 2007, NIDIS launched the U.S. Drought Portal, or drought.gov, a website that pulls together many federal, state, and academic resources for monitoring drought. [9] [10] In January 2021, NIDIS worked with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information to launch a completed redesigned U.S. Drought Portal. The new website features ...