For centuries, isolation and cyclical drought have resulted in famine.

Severe drought and poor access to the settlement resulted in the hotel and hospital closing.

Frequent droughts have resulted from this continuous sand mining, due to a fall in the water table.

And drought, like the one that hit the American plains in 1988, can result from greater heat as well as from lower rainfall.

Since 1997, drought has resulted in depletion of much of the reservoir's water.

In the north central United States, a continuing severe drought resulted in little water being available.

However, in the years that it does not rain as much as usual, a drought might result.

Severe droughts resulted in massive losses of sheep and eventually the station was abandoned.

Why do droughts often result in devastating insect epidemics?

In recent years, drought and economic mismanagement have resulted in a buildup of foreign debt.