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...“Due to changes in climate, it’s already super dry there [in Barcelona] in January, February, and the summer still has to come,” says Uhlenbrook....
...“We need to weather those wet periods and help us get through the dry periods.” Dams are one solution. The country’s large dams can currently store about 4 cubic kilometres, de Waal says....
...Searing dry years are expected to become more common in Italy — one of the European countries most affected by climate change — because of its long Mediterranean coastline....
...It is also has extensive irrigation, allowing it to grow rice throughout the year....
...Ukraine’s agriculture ministry said the loss of the Kakhovka reservoir was a “man-made disaster” for farming in the area, a big cereal and oilseed producing zone where summers are hot and dry....
...The government also wants to expand areas under drip irrigation, which saves water....
...This would help meet Ukraine’s need for power, alongside water both for drinking and for irrigation....
...“While the last few months in the central parts of Arizona have been relatively dry, last winter was quite wet in Arizona,” he said....
...Work by World Weather Attribution, a collaboration between climate scientists, has found a direct link between a warming world and 2022’s dry summer period....
...It typically brings hot and dry conditions to south-east Asia, in contrast to the wetter and cooler weather from La Niña. After three years of La Niña up to early 2023, El Niño is returning....
...This was possible because for some years they had been transitioning to dry farming rather than the irrigation that is routine in so much of California....
...While farming businesses producing crops such as citrus fruit for export use modern irrigation methods to save water, small farmers growing staple cereals for the domestic market are dependent on the rain...
...The El Niño weather phenomenon, associated with heat and drought across the Pacific Ocean, also threatens to damage output next year as growing conditions may be too dry....
...“Climate change could lead to a drop in agricultural yields in Egypt by 15 to 20 per cent by 2050,” said Ali Abousabaa, director-general of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas...
...Smells like a dry white Pessac-Léognan....
...A dry winter followed by record high temperatures have left much of the country parched. Parks are covered in golden, straw-like grass. Even mature trees are struggling to cling on to their leaves....
...identified Spain as being one of the European countries that had implemented measures to reduce the number and size of forest fires, requiring a combination of better forest management, forecasting and land irrigation...
...Coir can often feel dry and dusty to the touch, but this stuff doesn’t. “It’s because we’ve reused it many, many times,” Clayton explains....
...And I have reached for her elbow or her hand, or kissed her soft, dry cheek; getting, and giving, what I can, while I can....
...Tsilahara Monja pulls a spindly sweet potato out of the dry earth of his field. “If there was more rain, these crops would grow better,” he says....
...Fabio Camisani usually wears thick rubber boots to keep his feet dry while surveying the muddy paddy fields of his 70-hectare rice farm south of Milan....
...It is a big improvement, one whose Aegean flora has coped quite well with this year’s dry summer. Elsewhere, the drought was a nightmare: Sissinghurst has no system of irrigation....
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