And drought-prone regions benefit from the clustered hoof prints, which capture what meager moisture falls from the sky.

S. bispinosa is adapted to wet, heavy soil but apparently adapts easily to drought-prone or sandy regions.

City leaders characterized the move as a prudent step to diversify the water supply in this drought-prone region.

The booklet lists many plants that are easy to establish and durable in drought-prone regions.

Environmentalists ask why Indian tribes would embrace a water-guzzling enterprise in a drought-prone region that annually averages about nine inches of rain.

In landscapes in arid or drought-prone regions, drought tolerance is an important consideration in plant selection.

Hazare has helped farmers of more than 70 villages in drought-prone regions in the state of Maharashtra since 1975.

Livestock herding and fishing sustain the people - many of them nomads - of the drought-prone region.

Time to recognize that we should not conspire to encourage ever-larger, ever less sustainable populations in drought-prone regions.

Very little vegetation grows in drought-prone regions such as this.