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Namibia having exhausted 84% of its food reserves last month, according to the United Nations
Affected farmers are requested to apply for compensation through AIMS portal.
The summer has been so harsh that they now receive even drinking water over stipulated time periods.
A check dam has been readied across Kabani to arrest the water from Karapuzha Dam, 60 km away.
The district has become hotter by almost a degree Celsius since 2021.
Those staying in high rise apartments with water harvesting facilities are also now dependent on tankers for drinking water.
Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote villages.
The drought phenomenon has been linked with rising temperatures towards the second half of the 21st century leading to increased variations in monsoon precipitation.
People of earlier generations in Kerala had noticed that when the bamboos blossom, a drought would be witnessed in the area the following year.
Through the gaps of tall casuarina trees lining the coast of the Indian Ocean near Dhanushkodi, one can witness local women dig deep into the white sand with improvised metal plate shovels in their quest to find drinking water.
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