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droughtnoun
Synonyms:
dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain
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List of paraphrases for "drought":
droughts, dryness, arid, dry, drought-stricken, drought-related, aridity, sucha, drought-affected, driest, draught
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This really matters because in the future droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change, some forests could be in a race to recover before the next drought strikes.
We've done a lot. We have a long way to go, so maybe you want to think of this as just another installment on a long enterprise to live with a changing climate and with a drought of uncertain duration.
It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.
Wherever the storms hit shore on West Coast is where the heaviest precipitation occurs, and that can be very beneficial in areas that often don't have enough water — and we have the drought going right now.
The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood.
Translations for drought
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- droogteAfrikaans
- جفافArabic
- quraqlıqAzerbaijani
- ҡоролоҡBashkir
- засухаBelarusian
- сушаBulgarian
- খরাBengali
- sec'horBreton
- seca, sequera, secadaCatalan, Valencian
- suchoCzech
- sychder, sychdwrWelsh
- Trockenzeit, Trockenheit, DürreGerman
- ξηρασίαGreek
- trosekeco, sekegecoEsperanto
- sequía, secaSpanish
- põudEstonian
- lehorteBasque
- خشکسالیPersian
- kuivuusFinnish
- sécheresseFrench
- triomachIrish
- secura, secaGalician
- kyve'yGuaraní
- בצורתHebrew
- सूखाHindi
- sechrèsHaitian Creole
- aszályHungarian
- երաշտArmenian
- kekeringanIndonesian
- þurrkarIcelandic
- siccitàItalian
- 旱魃Japanese
- გვალვაGeorgian
- құрғақшылықKazakh
- 가뭄Korean
- siccitasLatin
- DréchentLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- sausraLithuanian
- sausumsLatvian
- taurakiMāori
- сушаMacedonian
- kemarauMalay
- nixfaMaltese
- tørkeNorwegian
- droogteDutch
- tørkeNorwegian Nynorsk
- secadaOccitan
- suszaPolish
- secaPortuguese
- ch'akiyQuechua
- secetăRomanian
- засуха, сушь, засушливостьRussian
- suša, сушаSerbo-Croatian
- suchoSlovak
- sušaSlovene
- shangwaShona
- thatësirëAlbanian
- torkaSwedish
- kiangazi, ukameSwahili
- ภัยแล้งThai
- guraklykTurkmen
- kuraklıkTurkish
- засухаUkrainian
- سوکھاUrdu
- hạn hánVietnamese
- lesigVolapük
- 乾旱Chinese
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