Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institute hopes to provide the village health workers with the skills of "barefoot doctors, "Joseph said. "Simple activities make a lot of difference in the rural regions," where many deaths are caused by malnutrition, malaria, diabetes and diarrhea, he said. Drought Stricken...
...clobbered the East with heavy snow (Boston, 21 in.; New York, 16 in.), the West with drenching rains and high winds, the South with frigid temperatures and a score of tornadoes. In Massachusetts, the state's $9 million snow-removal budget is already exhausted. California drought officials traded in their sun visors for umbrellas and began dispensing flood-control information. Motorists in Georgia shuddered at the foreign squeal of back tires spinning...
...power over human life and events in the form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. These leave behind forgettable statistics and unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humble people in the face of such wrath. Farmers often suffer the most, from the drought and plagues of biblical times to the hailstorms or quick freezes that even today can wipe out whole crops in minutes. Last week's icy assault on the Midwest, for all its ferocity and cost, is merely another reminder of the in escapable vulnerability of life and social well-being...
Indeed, last week the executive committee of the Western Regional Drought Action Task Force, a 21-state organization formed to cope with mutual water problems, recommended that the group disband. Only California and Colorado will keep their drought task forces in operation...
...California, the state worst hit by the drought, precipitation during the rainy season so far has been 125% to 130% above normal. More important, the snow pack in the High Sierras, which provides California with the bulk of its water, is in some places twice as deep as it usually is at this time of year...