Question

Explain the effects of drought.

Answer 1

Droughts has many side effects:

• It leads to shortage of food grains, fodder and water.
• It leads to crop failure creating scarcity of food grains (akal), fodder (trinkal), inadequate rainfall, resulting in shortage of water (jalkal).
• Large-scale death of cattle and other animals, migration of humans and livestock.
• Scarcity of water compels people to consume contaminated water resulting in spread of many waterborne diseases like gastro-enteritis, cholera, hepatitis, etc.