Drought

Visitors admire the ancient Greek Concordia temple, known as the Temple of Juno, in the Valley of the Temples archeological park, in Agrigento, southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 20, 2022. The region has long known droughts, but Somalis say the current drought is worse than any they can remember. Four straight rainy seasons have failed, starting two years ago. The fifth and six seasons are likely to fail also. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay) This drought has astonished resilient herders and farmers by lasting four failed rainy seasons, starting two years ago. The fifth season is underway and likely will fail too, along with the sixth early next year.

A formerly sunken boat sits high and dry along the shoreline of Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nev., May 10, 2022. The white line of mineral deposits in the distance represents the decades-old high water mark of the reservoir which has since fallen 170 feet to record lows, revealing a virtual graveyard of watercraft and dead fish. (AP Photo / John Locher)

Qandi Gul, 10, holds her brother outside housing for those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. Gul’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife Aziz, taking a down payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told Aziz, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. But Aziz is fighting to save her daughter from being forced into the arranged marriage. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

Misty Buckley carries dirty water from her animals’ pens to water plants in her front yard, in Klamath Falls, Ore., July 24, 2021. The family’s house well ran dry in May following historic drought in southern Oregon. Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in the area near the Oregon-California border where the effects of drought have taken a particularly dramatic toll. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

Pink water washes over a salt crust along the receding edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, May 4, 2021. The lake has been shrinking for years, and its levels are expected to hit a 170-year low in 2021 as drought grips the American West. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)

A home destroyed in the 2020 North Complex Fire sits above Lake Oroville in Oroville, Calif., May 23, 2021. The reservoir is shown at 39% of capacity and 46% of its historical average. The mighty lake — a linchpin in a system of aqueducts and reservoirs in the arid U.S. West that makes California possible — is shrinking with surprising speed amid a severe drought, with state officials predicting it will reach a record low later this summer. The lake helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires.(AP Photo / Noah Berger)