Drought

             Drought is a period of continuous dry weather, especially when there is not enough water for people’s needs. During droughts it never rains for months and months, not even in time of the rainy season. Drought causes untold misery to the people. Rivers, canals, ponds and pools get dry. There is heat wave and hot spell. The thirsty earth gapes for rain. People experience acute shortage of drinking water. The water level for the tube wells supplying drinking water in villages goes down. The blooming cornfields dry up. As it causes widespread damage to crops, cattle perish for want of fodder and famine starts stalking the land. Various diseases break out. Prices of food stuff goes up so high that most men cannot afford to buy them. So drought is a bane to most men.