A lone tree stands near a water trough in a drought-affected paddock on Jimmie and May McKeown's property located on the outskirts of town of Walgett, in New South Wales, Australia, July 20, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray SEARCH "AUSTRALIA DROUGHT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Huge areas of dry ground which would be under water when the lake is full are seen at Lake Powell near Page, Arizona, May 26, 2015. Lake Powell on the Colorado River provides water for Nevada, Arizona and California. A severe drought in recent years, combined with withdrawals that many believe are not sustainable, has reduced its levels to only about 42 percent of its capacity. REUTERS/Rick Wilking PICTURE 1 OF 26 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "EARTHPRINTS: LAKE POWELL"SEARCH "EARTHPRINTS POWELL" FOR ALL IMAGES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A field of dead almond trees is seen in Coalinga in the Central Valley, California, United States May 6, 2015. Almonds, a major component of farming in California, use up some 10 percent of the state's water reserves according to some estimates. California ranks as the top farm state by annual value of agricultural products, most of which are produced in the Central Valley, the vast, fertile region stretching 450 miles (720 km) north-sound from Redding to Bakersfield. California water regulators on Tuesday adopted the state's first rules for mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the region's catastrophic drought enters its fourth year. Urban users will be hardest hit, even though they account for only 20 percent of state water consumption, while the state's massive agricultural sector, which the Public Policy Institute of California says uses 80 percent of human-related consumption, has been exempted. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson 

An aerial view of the Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira reservoir, during a drought in Nazare Paulista, Sao Paulo state November 18, 2014. Brazil's worst drought in 80 years has left the Cantareira system, that provides greater Sao Paulo with most of its water, with the lowest water level on record, with daily rationing becoming common in the region's smaller cities, according to the state authorities and the two main reservoirs serving metropolitan Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, could dry out by February if relief does not arrive in the upcoming rainy season. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

An armed Turkana man walks towards the shores of Lake Turkana near a temporary fishing camp some kilometres from Todonyang near the Kenya-Ethiopia border in northwestern Kenya October 12, 2013. The Turkana are traditionally nomadic pastoralists, but they have seen the pasture that they need to feed their herds suffer from recurring droughts and many have turned to fishing. However, Lake Turkana is overfished, and scarcity of food and pastureland is fuelling long-standing conflict with Ethiopian indigenous Dhaasanac, who have seen grazing grounds squeezed by large-scale government agricultural schemes in southern Ethiopia. The Dhaasanac now venture ever deeper into Kenyan territory in search of fish and grass, clashing with neighbours. Fighting between the communities has a long history, but the conflict has become ever more fatal as automatic weapons from other regional conflicts seep into the area. While the Turkana region is short of basics like grass and ground-water, it contains other resources including oil reserves and massive, newly discovered underground aquifers. Picture taken October 12, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (KENYA - Tags: AGRICULTURE CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Alice, 4, sits on her father's donkey cart as they transport barrels of water to their ranch during one of the worst droughts in the region's history, in Poco Redondo, in the northeastern state of Sergipe January 12, 2013. Residents here tell of how they have not seen more than a drizzle in nearly four years, while Alice says she does not know what rain is, except that it is something good. Brazil's Northeast is suffering its worst drought in decades, threatening hydro-power supplies in an area prone to blackouts and potentially slowing economic growth in one of the country's emerging agricultural frontiers. Lack of rain has hurt corn and cotton crops, left cattle and goats to starve to death in dry pastures and wiped some 30 percent off sugar cane production in the region responsible for 10 percent of Brazil's cane output. Picture taken January 12, 2013. REUTERS/Lunae Parracho (BRAZIL - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS COMMODITIES AGRICULTURE) 

Clamshells lie on the drying lakebed of the Itumbiara hydroelectric dam as the dam runs at only 9 percent of capacity due to low water levels, according to the dam's operator, in the city of Itumbiara on the border between the states of Goias and Minas Gerais in Central Brazil, January 9, 2013. One of the worst droughts in Brazil's history is depriving many dams of the water they need to generate electricity, but Brazil looks less vulnerable today to an energy crisis similar to one in 2001, since the government built dozens of thermoelectric power plants to reduce the country's dependence on hydro power from 88 percent to about 75 percent. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino (BRAZIL - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS) 

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People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat, in this file picture taken June 1, 2003. The world?s population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011, according to projections by the United Nations, which says this global milestone presents both an opportunity and a challenge for the planet. While more people are living longer and healthier lives, says the U.N., gaps between rich and poor are widening and more people than ever are vulnerable to food insecurity and water shortages. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files (INDIA DAY - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE SEE: GM1E83M1GVS01 

A World Food Programme employee seen with cooking flour on his face works at a food distribution centre at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, August 1, 2011. The whole of drought- and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens, the United Nations said. In a report for countries sending aid, the U.N.'s umbrella humanitarian agency OCHA said the "crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen through 2011, with all areas of the south slipping into famine". REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) 

An aid worker using an iPad films the rotting carcass of a cow in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 23, 2011. Since drought gripped the Horn of Africa, and especially since famine was declared in parts of Somalia, the international aid industry has swept in and out of refugee camps and remote hamlets in branded planes and snaking lines of white 4x4s. This humanitarian, diplomatic and media circus is necessary every time people go hungry in Africa, analysts say, because governments - both African and foreign - rarely respond early enough to looming catastrophes. Combine that with an often simplistic explanation of the causes of famine, and a growing band of aid critics say parts of Africa are doomed to a never-ending cycle of ignored early warnings, media appeals and emergency U.N. feeding - rather than a transition to lasting self-sufficiency. Picture taken July 23, 2011. To match Feature AFRICA-FAMINE/ REUTERS/Barry Malone (KENYA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GM1E7CC1OI801. 

Police charge at a man they suspect of creating trouble during celebrations of the Red Machindranath chariot festival in Lalitpur May 15, 2011. The festival is one of the main festivals observed by both the Buddhist and Hindu communities of Kathmandu valley. It honours the deity Lord Machindranath, who is credited with saving Nepal from a prolonged drought in ancient times. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Girls play in a deserted boat on a dry lake caused by a lack of water upstream in Zhengzhou, Henan province February 12, 2009. Dry weather will continue in China's major wheat producing regions, but reservoirs have enough water to meet demand in the peak period and timely irrigation could reduce the damage, a senior drought relief official said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Nir Elias (CHINA) For best quality see GM1E57U1F8901 

A gumboot sits atop a fencepost on the site of the old town of Adaminaby as it re-emerges out of Lake Eucumbene, located 150 km (93 miles) south of the Australian capital Canberra June 5, 2007. Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of water without limit, the town known as Old Adaminaby is having an odd renaissance as a looters' heaven and centrepiece of Australia's desiccating climate. As the town re-surfaces from the vanishing waters of one of the country's largest man-made lakes, souvenir hunters have arrived for the relics laid bare by the worst drought on record. REUTERS/David Gray (AUSTRALIA) 

A motorcyclist wears a scarf to protect herself against dust as she rides on a windy day in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, May 7, 2007. Northern China generates duststorms and sandstorms almost every spring because of drought, overuse of agricultural land and topographic peculiarities. Picture taken May 7, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) 

The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger, August 1, 2005. Torrential rain promising a better harvest in Niger threatens to slow aid deliveries to many of the millions of hungry people in desperate need of help before their crops ripen, aid workers said on Monday. One of Niger's worst droughts in living memory destroyed much of last October's crop, leaving an estimated 3.6 million people short of food, including tens of thousands of starving children who could die without urgent assistance. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Pictures of the month August 2005 Pictures of the Year 2005 FOR/DY Also see image GF1DUWMZDMAA 

The hand of a villager of Mourisia is seen as he looks at a forest fire in the Acor's mountain range in Arganil. The hand of a villager of Mourisia is seen as he looks at a forest fire in the Acor's mountain range in Arganil, central Portugal, July 22, 2005. Portugal, gripped by its worst drought in at least 60 years, sent hundreds of firefighters to battle blazes across the country and warned of economic fallout to the parched agricultural sector. REUTERS/Nacho Doce PP05070289 Pictures of the month July 2005 Pictures of the year 2005 

Malnourished infants receive treatment at a feeding centre run by the medical charity group Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Maradi in southern Niger June 30, 2005. Aid workers say cases of malnutrition have rocketed among children in Niger in the past few months after the worst drought in years aggravated chronic food shortages in one of the world's poorest countries, which lies just south of the Sahara. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Pictures of the Month June 2005 Pictures of the Year 2005 FOR/NL 

A Sudanese refugee rides his donkey at dusk as he crosses a dry riverbed near Bredjing camp in eastern Chad August 4, 2004. Over 200,000 refugees fleeing fighting in neighbouring Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region are living in camps scattered along the Chad eastern border. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti Pictures of the Year 2004 In Object name field - Yearend pictures 2004 RSS/DBP 

Bangladeshi children walk through dried farm land near Dhaka on December 12, 2003. Farmlands left unirrigated after harvesting crops often dry up at the onset of winter in Bangladesh. . Pictures of the month December 2003. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman Pictures of the Year 2003 NA/CP 

People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. Natwargadh is in the midst of the worst drought in over a decade. Dams, wells and ponds have gone dry across the western and northern parts of Gujarat forcing people to wait for hours around village ponds for the irregular state-run water tankers to show up as the temperature sores to over 44 degree Celcius. The United Nation's World Environment Day will be celebrated on Thursday with the theme of "Water - Two Billion People are Dying for It". REUTERS/Amit Dave BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

Cathy and Harriet Finlayson walk around the perimeter of their dried-up pond
on their drought-ridden property, where little rain has fallen in the past
for years, near the township of Brewarrina, located over 800 kilometres (497
miles) north-west of Sydney. The second-generation farmer's once green
paddocks have been transformed into sun-cracked wasteland, thousands of
sheep have been sold or are dying and his last store of water runs out in
six week. Even in outback Australia where conditions are harsh at the best
of times, farmers in remote New South Wales say this is the worst drought in
living memory. Picture taken September 26, 2002. REUTERS/David
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Australian farmer Bill Finlayson and his daughter sit atop their horses as
they look out across the remains of a sheep on his drought-stricken property
near the township of Brewarrina, 800 km (497 miles) north-west of Sydney.
One of the worst Australian droughts in 100 years has wiped out more than
half the country's winter export crops which would have produced a large
amount of Asia's bread-making wheat, beer-making barley and canola cooking
oil. Picture taken September 26, 2002. Pictures of the Year 2003
REUTERS/David Gray

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An Indian woman watches her cows in the drought-hit village of Purulia,
300 km (180 miles) west of Calcutta on August 9, 2002. The Indian Farm
Minister Ajit Singh said that drought had engulfed nearly the entire
country and was the worst in more than 15 years. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw

JS/RCS 

An Indian boy jumps into the Arabian Sea next to Bombay's Gateway of
India during high-tide and rain on August 8, 2002. Despite heavy rains
in Bombay in the last few days, vast areas of India continued to suffer
an erratic monsoon with little or no rain. The Indian Farm Minister
Ajit Singh said on Thursday that drought has engulfed nearly the entire
country and was the worst in more than 15 years. REUTERS/Arko Datta

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Indian children play with umbrellas in the rain in a Bombay slum August
6, 2002. Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital, has experienced
heavy showers in the last few days, relieving a recent drought in the
region. REUTERS/Arko Datta

AD/JD 

An Indian farmer inspects what's left of his crop during a drought near
Patiala in the northern state of Punjab July 17, 2002. A delay in the
arrival of India's monsoon in some parts of the country has raised
fears of drought in some areas, which analysts say could stifle
recovery. REUTERS/Dipak Kumar

JSG/PB 

POY - YEAREND PICTURES 2001 - Flamingos prepare for flight, running on
dried salt which remains from a saltwater lake, July 22, 2001. Iran's
southern Fars province, suffering from a third consecutive year of
"extreme" drought, had a 47% drop in rainfall compared to last year,
causing $438 million in damages to agriculture and livestock. A United
Nations report said the drought has cost Iran $2.6 billion in damages
this year, up from $1.7 billion last year. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

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School children run to receive U.S. first lady Jill Biden at the drought response site, during her visit to highlight the impacts of drought relief, at the Lositeti village in Matapato North, Kajiado County, Kenya February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

The remains of livestock lie on the ground after a wildfire, in a region hit by drought and high temperatures, near Santo Tome, province of Corrientes, Argentina February 21, 2022. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An Extinction Rebellion activist, wearing a mermaid costume, takes part in a protest against climate change on the banks of the river Po, after dry land emerged from the shallow waters, following weeks of drought with no snow or rain, in Turin, Italy, February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

John Miller, owner of Miller Honey Farms, inspects one of his bee colonies in Gackle, North Dakota, U.S. July 30, 2021. Drought-weakened bee colonies are producing a small honey crop in North Dakota, a major U.S. honey producer. Picture taken July 30, 2021. REUTERS/Dan Koeck TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Cristina Mamani walks near an unused boat in Lake Poopo, Bolivia's second largest lake which has dried up due to water diversion for regional irrigation needs and a warmer, drier climate, according to local residents and scientists, in Lake Poopo, Bolivia July 24, 2021. Picture taken July 24, 2021. REUTERS/Claudia Morales TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A lone boat sits perched on a mound near Hensley Lake as soaring temperatures and drought continue to affect livestock and water supplies in Madera, California, U.S. July 14, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/David Swanson TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An aerial view shows an almost evaporated canal, with toxic residues, as California faces its worst drought since 1977, in Salton City, California, U.S., July 4, 2021. Picture taken with a drone July 4, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An aerial view shows former docks with the water much further away on a beach at Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, where the state's worst drought since 1977 has exacerbated an area already in decline, in Salton City, California, U.S., July 4, 2021. Picture taken July 4, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Aerial view shows the artificial lake, Shadow Lake Estates, next to desert landscape as the state faces its worst drought since 1977, in Indio, California U.S., June 29, 2021. Picture taken with a drone June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An aerial view shows Elizabeth Lake, that has been dried up for several years, as the region experiences extreme heat and drought conditions, in Elizabeth Lake, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, U.S., June 18, 2021. Picture taken with a drone June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Houseboats are anchored in low water levels at Lake Oroville, which is the second largest reservoir in California and according to daily reports of the state's Department of Water Resources is near 35% capacity, near Oroville, California, U.S., June 16, 2021. Picture taken June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci 

An aerial view shows houseboats anchored in low water levels at Lake Oroville, which is the second largest reservoir in California and according to daily reports of the state's Department of Water Resources is near 35% capacity, near Oroville, California, U.S., June 16, 2021. Picture taken with a drone June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Low water levels due to drought are seen in the Hoover Dam reservoir of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. June 9, 2021. Picture taken June 9, 2021. REUTERS/Bridget Bennett TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Eugene Boonie, 55, who is from Navajo Nation, fills up his water tank at the livestock water spigot in the Bodaway Chapter in the Navajo Nation, in Gap, Arizona, U.S. September 17, 2020. Due to the lack of water infrastructure and a drought that is drying up traditional watering holes, livestock owners haul water to their livestock. "We have to come here to get our water about every other day. Pretty much everyone in this area gets their water here. We used to be able to get water from the rainwater but it just has not been raining this summer or even for the past couple years," said Boonie. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "NAVAJO KEITH" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

French firefighters extinguish a fire in a burning field of wheat during harvest season in Aubencheul-au-Bac, France, July 21, 2020. Picture taken July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol 

A field of endives is irrigated after the authorities announced a drought risk for the summer, in Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle, France, May 26, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Men shear sheep on a farm following recent rains near the drought-affected town of Uralla, New South Wales, Australia, February 19, 2020. Picture taken February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott 

The abandoned boats lie on the dried lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song SEARCH "POYANG LAKE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A boat sits on the dried lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song SEARCH "POYANG LAKE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Dry cliffs are seen following a prolonged drought at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, December 4, 2019. Picture taken December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Low-water levels are seen after a prolonged drought at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Staff TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A dead lamb lies in the veld on a farm near drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, November 16, 2019. Picture taken November 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Children play as caked clay is seen in the dried up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, November 17, 2019. Picture taken November 17, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Ngiyaampaa girl Punta Williams poses for photographs on the dry riverbed before performing at Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival on the banks of the Darling River in Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia, October 1, 2019. Recently, Aboriginal communities held special festivals along the river "to heal the Barka". Ochre-painted dancers performed around fires at dusk, revering the river but also seeking to draw attention to its plight. REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy SEARCH "NEARMY DROUGHT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A camp staff feeds Ayeyar Sein, a four-month-old baby elephant who lost her parents to poachers, after her daily wound cleaning in Wingabaw Elephant Camp, Bago, Myanmar, September 30, 2019. Picture taken September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Siddharth's mother Jyoti Dhage holds her four month old daughter Akansha as she watches her neighbour Gaurav Ganesh, 13, as he helps fill the containers with water at Aurangabad railway station, India, July 18, 2019. "I'm careful, but sometimes pitchers fall off the door in the melee and our work is wasted," she said. "I can't leave my daughter at home alone so I have to take her along." REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas SEARCH "MASCARENHAS DROUGHT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. 

A family prays near the ruins of a headless Buddha statue, which has resurfaced in a dried-up dam due to drought, in Lopburi, Thailand August 1, 2019. Picture taken August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun 

A fish farmer recues fishes from the almost dried up Landes pond in Lussat, central France, as the hot weather prolongs drought conditions in France, July 25, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Birds are seen near dried up mud from the Landes pond in Lussat, as the hot weather in France prolongs drought conditions, July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A pig feeds on sandbanks which emerged amid Danube River's lowest water levels this year, in Beska, Serbia, October 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A sunflower blooms in between dried-out ones during hot summer weather on a field near the village of Benken, Switzerland August 6, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A truck stirs up dust on a road behind a dam on farmer May McKeown's drought-affected property located on the outskirts of the northwestern New South Wales town of Walgett in Australia, July 19, 2018. Picture taken July 19, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY