Landslide in a Village The rainstorm was over‚ I dashed out from the house to free myself. Spending hours in the house really made me feel bored rigid (extremely bored). I needed fresh air and so I went for a ride in the neighbourhood of Bukit Katil. I enjoyed cycling along the roads that ran parallel with rows of tall trees. The atmosphere around me was refreshingly cool. In the midst of admiring view‚ I caught the sight of a house that was partly buried in the mud. I halted (stop)
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The places we live in are an important part of out lives. The places with many opportunities and better facilities ensure and enhance our lives‚ so people consider living at these places. Some people prefer to live in a small town while others prefer to live in a big city. In my view‚ it is better to live in a big city for two important reasons. First‚ there are more opportunities in a big city. It is often said that people do better when they get appropriate background‚ so if you are well educated
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Introduction In January of 2014‚ California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency after the drought led to the driest year in California history. Local government agencies sprung into action‚ calling for a twenty percent decrease in statewide water usage. Californians across the state were subjected to laws and regulations put in place to manage drought conditions. Farmers‚ especially‚ experienced hardship as groundwater and surface water supplies were cut off due to shortages. However
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Tropical Cyclones & Floods & Droughts: Australia is well known for it’s natural disasters including BushFires‚ Floods‚ Droughts and Tropical Cyclones. The major disasters being Tropical Cyclones and Droughts. A cyclone is a large-scale‚ atmospheric wind and pressure system characterized by low pressure at it’s centre and by circulating motion‚ counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. An example of a tropical cyclone is Australia’s deadliest one yet
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California and other stated that have considerable drought need to promote reasonable water use. The PPIC recommends changes in the following areas: (1) reduce urban landscape irrigation; (2) improve conservation pricing in cities; (3) strengthen water markets; (4) diversify urban supplies; (5) manage groundwater; and (6) prevent waste and unreasonable use (PPIC 2016‚ 6). As stated earlier‚ the PPIC recommend the modernization of environmental drought management. State and federal wildlife agencies
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currently in the midst of a drought that has been ongoing for four years. This epidemic has been getting worse and worse‚ which is a severe problem. Although being in a drought is surely an environmental issue‚ it is our responsibility to be mindful and cautious about it. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center‚ “People can also play a big role in drought. If we use too much water during times of normal rainfall‚ we might not have enough water when a drought happens.” Nobody
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Recent studies have also shown that severe droughts could be the reason for the downfall of the Mayan civilization. In a study conducted by Dr. David Hodell and Dr. Jason Curtis‚ geologists at the University of Florida‚ evidence of a serious drought during the time when the Mayans began to fall was found. By analyzing sediments beneath Lake Chichancanab on the Yucatan Peninsula‚ they were able to call it “"the first unambiguous evidence" for a period of extreme aridity between the years 800 and 1000”(World
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California Drought? California is suffering from one of the worst droughts and everyone from businesses‚ wildlife‚ farmers‚ and residents are highly impacted. According to NASA‚ California needs 11 trillion gallons of water to recover from the drought (Robles). There are several solutions occurring that are aimed to minimize the effects of the drought such as‚ water conservation and new technologies. Water conservation is important to control and can be done by limiting water usage through cutting
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presentation of “Air Pollution 101.” With California in a drought‚ problems develop in the water for consumption as well as the water for agriculture‚ a big factor in the profits that the valley receives. Water companies are then forced to dig into the aquifers‚ or naturally forming underground water supplies‚ which have caused the land to sink. All of these environments in the San Joaquin Valley have been affected greatly by the drought in California and have resulted in ill effects to the valley
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