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The most severe meteorological droughts were in the years 1876, 1899, 1918, 1965, and 2000, while the five worst hydrological droughts occurred in the years 1876, 1899, 1918, 1965, and 2000. The drought of 1899 can be classified as meteorological as well as hydrological and was the most severe documented drought India has ever experienced to date.
The drought of 1979–1980 in West Bengal was the next major drought and caused a 17% decline in food production with a shortfall of 13.5 million tonnes of food grain. Stored food stocks were leveraged by the government, and there was no net import of food grains. The drought was relatively unknown outside of India. [146]
6 India. 7 South Pacific. 8 United States. ... 2011 UK Drought and March–April Heatwave (The drought continued from 2010 and lasted through until March 2012 ...
The Bihar drought of 1966–1967 was a drought in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. [1] [2] The official death toll from starvation in the Bihar drought was 2353, roughly half of which occurred in the state of Bihar. [3] The wholesale price of food grains in Bihar had increased while there was a marginal increase in the prices in other ...
Drought might have been a contributing factor to Classic Maya collapse between the 7th and 9th centuries. [112] 1540 Central Europe, said to be the "worst drought of the millennium" with eleven months without rain and temperatures of 5–7 °C above the average of the 20th century [113] [114] 1900 India killing between 250,000 and 3.25 million.
Map of India with Maharashtra State in red. In January 2013, the Indian government reported that 7,896 villages in Maharashtra were affected by drought. [2] In a region near the Bhima River in Maharashtra, the years leading up to the drought in 2013 recorded below average annual rainfall: in 2011, slightly below average, and in 2012, the lowest since 2003.
The 2016–2017 drought in Tamil Nadu was a natural disaster that affected farmers in the region. It resulted from the lowest rainfall in Tamil Nadu in the past 140 years during the Northeast monsoon [1] season, leaving farmers with minimal rainfall. [2] Tragically, the drought led to numerous suicides among farmer households
India has only 4/100% of the world's fresh water resources despite a population of over 1.4 billion people. [2] In addition to the disproportionate availability of freshwater, water scarcity in India also results from drying up of rivers and their reservoirs in the summer months, right before the onset of the monsoons throughout