Drought

I. Introduction The occurrence of natural disasters may be considered as ‘acts of nature’, but the reality that it occurs in political space (Cohen and Werker, 2008) can lead to different possibilities. ‘All disasters are political for three reasons: first and most important is that disasters affect people. Second is that disaster involves public policy where it shows the preparedness of people and how the emergency management creates and implements policy. Lastly, disasters pull the public…

triggered one of the most financial downfalls in American history, the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl was the area of parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico in the 1930s that experienced strong dust storms and lack of water, causing a drought. Although many factors can be accounted for the causes of the Dust Bowl, the main reason is farmers excessively cultivated and plowed their land, exposing topsoil. The strong wind picked up this topsoil and created strong dust storms; decimating…

cropping and some tropical grasslands may become increasingly arid. This may also expand the range of agricultural pests and diseases. Even now, farmers are alluding to increases in frequency and severity of extreme climatic factors such as floods and droughts. Rainfall patterns are also said to be…

& Anaheim's water laws. What is happening to the water in California? Where is it going ? How to save it ? Nowadays people say “ California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.” But people forget to ask themselves is what exactly lead California to that position and why is it going through severe droughts. California’s water is distributed in three major places; 1- The urban with 10%. 2- Environment with 50%. 3- Agriculture with 40%. Second, the environment. Where 50% is…

Then there was a drought that lasted from 1605 to 1615.The Powhatan and English trade started to diminish because they had less resources to trade.Eventually it the tribes stopped trading completely and they were stealing from each other…

The scarcity of resources has the potential to cause damage to modern society in the near future. Resources like food, water, and fuels help maintain society. Without proper access or enough resources to go around, society can be in for some consequences. In Jared Diamond’s essay, “The Last Americans”, he explains how the Mayan civilization collapsed due to a variety of reasons, one of which being a lack of resources. He then draws parallels to how the issue could play a role in modern society.…

It’s been proven that chariot war, drought, plague and invasion were some of the possible reasons that made the Aryan to migrate from Europe and central Asia. When they arrived in India sub-continent it believed that they adopted the culture of city life from the native people but in return…

devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. (“Dust Bowl”) Drought is a negative thing to people, and all living things. The dust killed plants, because it was dark for many years without sunlight, it killed animals because it destroyed their homes and filed lakes and ponds with tons of sand, making it undrinkable. Animals and people died from deceased and pounds of sand, making it hard to breath, and the sand is inside them and kill them. It was a very difficult…

HIV/AIDS is managed/taken care of and the way people with the virus are taken care of. Getting the right and healthy nutrition is an important role for someone with the disease. Plant growth is impacted by climate change because certain times there are droughts and floods that result in no crops growing. In certain hot places like Africa, patients will be more impacted by this, because they will be malnourished. Since HIV/AIDS destroys your immune system, without having enough nutrition one’s…

Many kids may hear their parents tell us an old story about the desert. Once upon a time, there was a green land full of animals and trees living together. Then humans came. They cut down trees, destroyed many animal habitats to get wood. A green land with living creatures turned into a desert. Billions of trees are cut down every year and sooner or later, desert will be all over the world. That’s exactly Don Marquis concerns about. In his essay, “what the ants are saying,” Don Marquis’s poem…