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  1. Weather Plays Havoc

    Date released
    23 Jul 1936
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    564
    NoS ID
    034630
    Story no
    7 / 7

    July storms spoil holidays and ruin crops in England, whilst heat wave and drought kills 800 in America.

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  2. New York Has Water Famine for Christmas

    Date released
    26 Dec 1949
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1964
    NoS ID
    042107
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Prolonged drought reduces City’s water reservoirs by more than two-thirds. Authorities institute "dry day" when use of water is forbidden except for essential purposes.

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  3. Settlers for Alaska

    Date released
    10 Jun 1935
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    447
    NoS ID
    033908
    Story no
    4 / 7

    Fresh start with state aid. Ruined by prolonged drought US farmers found new colony in far north.

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  4. Land is Bad, The: The Mursi (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...

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  5. Drought Menace Grows

    Date released
    22 Jun 1934
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    346
    NoS ID
    033316
    Story no
    5 / 6

    America badly hit. Record dry spell kills cattle and scorches crops ... Five hundred million dollar relief scheme to aid stricken farmers.

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  6. Parched Land, The (1978 Film)

    Director
    Kieron Moore
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Over 26 million people who live in the Sahel region of Africa are continually threatened by drought. Looks at how the shortage of water affected Gad Amar Fal, a small village in North Senegal. Examines...

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  7. Lord Mayor’s Show Really Ends Drought

    Date released
    14 Nov 1949
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1952
    NoS ID
    042026
    Story no
    1 / 5

    Sir Frederick Rowland becomes new Lord Mayor of London on one of the wettest days in the history of the show.

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  8. Living with Drought (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...

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  9. Going with the Flow (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Water may not be a scarce resource generally in the UK but it nonetheless needs careful management. The Dee River management scheme of the Welsh Water Authority is a fascinating example of such management,...

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  10. Humph ‘The Desert Dairy’ (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the camel has been successfully domesticated and used to combat the effects of the droughts of the previous five years.

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