Dwindling water supplies, low grain supplies, high prices for bread, meat, milk are outcomes of one of the worst droughts in the American history.
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U.S. Drought
U.S. consumers have just started to feel the effects of last summer’s drought at the supermarket. Prices are expected to continue increasing throughout 2013.
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Though corn acreage is forecasted to rise slightly over last year’s planting, the biggest jump is predicted for sorghum, which uses less water.
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Only 75 percent of allocated funds have been awarded since Congress created the drought-warning program seven years ago, and future funding remains unclear as NIDIS prepares for Capitol Hill on Thursday.
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As drought-ravaged corn supplies wear thin in the United States, global commodity markets are counting on favorable weather — and a big corn crop — in South America.
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How do freshwater flows — or lack thereof — affect the marine life downstream?
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Poor rains have led to crop failures in Somalia, and the threat of food price increases could push parts of the country back into famine. Meanwhile, there is little relief for those who fled to neighboring Kenya, as the refugee camps there are facing water shortages.
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Indianapolis has cut water consumption by 28 percent in the last two weeks.
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Drought blankets much of the United States. Each week, hundreds of scientists interpret how bad it really is.
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Droughts have struck food-producing regions in the United States, Russia, China, North Korea, and South Korea, raising the prospect of higher commodity prices and localized food shortages.
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Just as it was five years ago, a record-breaking drought is evident in Georgia. But has the state become more resilient through changes to water management policies?
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Favorable weather and prices, driven up by growing global demand and a series of droughts, have combined to push U.S. corn production to a new high — but retail food costs are not expected to drop.
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The preference for government mandates reinforces the idea that water is not like other goods.
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The worst drought in the 105-year historical record of the Colorado River has opened a new era of water scarcity that is prompting state and federal water managers to evaluate never before considered options for increasing water supply and reducing demand.
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Completed in 1935, Hoover Dam supplies electricity to 29 million people in Arizona, California and Nevada.
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What happens if Lake Mead drops too low to generate electricity at Hoover Dam?
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Officials in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently, when a local firm building the state’s first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons a day of city water.
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Is the American West facing a water disaster? Reporter Jon Gertner paints a dry future in his Oct 21, 2007 cover story, ”The Perfect Drought,” in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Required reading for anyone working in water. “…if some of the Southwest’s largest reservoirs empty out, the region would experience an apocalypse, ‘an Armageddon.’”
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