Sentences with phrase «where water deficits»
Knowing where water deficits are developing today tells us where grain deficits will be concentrated tomorrow.
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A parched breadbasket In the United Kingdom, where the parched southeast — the country's breadbasket — has received some welcome rain in the past week or two, it has been nowhere near enough to correct the water deficit after the driest March since 1953.
Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.
Our metric also revealed similar impacts across Eastern Canada in 2010, where high temperatures and significant water deficits led to large wildfires (Fig. 4, 2010) 52.