TEHRAN, August 16 - Australia’s biggest city Sydney is running down its water supply at the fastest rate on record with dams expected to fall below half maximum capacity due to the worst drought on record, the government said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pushed for greater grassroots water conservation efforts amid concerns weak monsoon rains would push millions of drought -hit people to the edge and hammer agricultural production in Asia's third-biggest economy.
TEHRAN, Jun 6 -A senior UN humanitarian official has warned about a severe hunger in Somalia, which has been suffering from one of the worst drought s in decades.
TEHRAN, September 09 - A devastating drought that has left Australian farmers struggling to stay afloat is set to persist despite widespread and significant rain last month, authorities have said.
TEHRAN, August 26 - "Our cows have been living off hay cut in June, there isn't any grass," says Jean-Guillaume Hannequin, a farmer in eastern France, who like his counterparts across much of northern Europe is wondering how he will feed his animals this winter.
TEHRAN, August 8 - Australia's most populous state was declared entirely in drought on Wednesday and struggling farmers were given new authority to shoot kangaroos that compete with livestock for sparse pasture during the most intense dry spell in more than 50 years.
TEHRAN, July 30 - Farmers in Germany need special aid of around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) because of damage to harvests caused by drought and heatwave, the head of German farming association DBV said on Monday.
TEHRAN, March 10 - Iran’s agricultural exports in the nine months since March 2017 totaled more than $4.5 billion, the country’s agriculture ministry said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, February 21 - A tough water-saving regime and the generosity of farmers have given South Africa’s main tourist hub welcome respite from a severe drought and helped push back a dreaded “Day Zero” when Cape Town’s taps are expected to run dry.
TEHRAN, February 13 - South Africa on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" over a drought that has ravaged parts of the country and threatened to leave the city of Cape Town without domestic tap water.
TEHRAN, January 23 - Some major Iranian cities are facing water rationing and other mandatory restrictions if the worst dry spell in more than 50 years persists.
TEHRAN, June 21, YJC - Investing in preparedness and building the resilience of farmers is fundamental to facing situations of extreme drought , FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Wednesday.
Every day, thousands of South Sudan refugees pass the border and reach Uganda. War and famine and drought have made life in South Sudan quite difficult.
Somalia's prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country.
For several years now, it’s been a popular trope of the Western press to make sweeping statements about Africa’s collective future – the continent is tumbling, no it’s rising, or maybe, as The New York Times put it earlier this year, Africa – all 50 some countries and 1.2 billion people of it – is just “reeling.”
Tehran, YJC. Iran's minister of energy has said that due to scanty preciptitaion this year the country's water reservoirs behind dams has lessened 3.4 percent.