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.
