How does it affect to our life?

              Drought in Thailand has directly affected to the agriculture and water sources, due to Thailand is the country that most of the population are doing agriculture. So when drought occur the agriculture activities are affected for example the land become dry, the crops are lacked of water and not growing and the number of the crops are decreased and have low quality. The agriculture are usually affected in rainy season when there has long term precipitation deficit

Affected area

            The droughts in Thailand often affect to agriculture, due to the lack of rain or drought. In the rainy season when there occur delays rain in june to july. The area in central north-eastern part of Thailand is highly affected because in this area isn’t influenced by the south-western monsoon. In addition if there is no tropical storm pass through the area the situation in this area will get worse. However there still have droughts in other area as shown on the table below.

Part/ Month	North	North eastern	Central	East	South(eastern part)	South(western part)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July	Drought Drought Precipitation deficit Precipitation deficit	Drought Drought Drought Precipitation deficit Precipitation deficit	Drought Drought Drought Precipitation deficit Precipitation deficit	Drought Drought Precipitation deficit Precipitation deficit	Drought	Drought Drought Drought Drought Drought

Why does the drought in Thailand happen [Science]?

We are sure that many people have seen the soil that is very dry like the picture below. For us who live in Thailand, we always see the soil likes that in the dry area, although we live in the central part of Thailand. We want to know why does it happen and today we will show you the reason of this question.

  

Why does it happen [Science]?

Drought is lack of rain for a long period of time which is a combined result of climate and human activities in the area. Drought will occur when there is not enough precipitation in an area, when there is not enough rain for the ground to absorb before it is evaporated again. In particular, severe droughts tend to occur between latitudes 15 and 20, in areas adjacent to the permanently arid and continental regions.

Droughts occur when a long period of abnormally dry weather leads to a severe water shortage. Droughts are also often caused by the activity of humans and can have devastating effects.

·         Widespread cutting down of trees for fuel reduces the soil’s ability to hold water - drying out the ground, triggering desertification and leading to drought.

·         Constructing a dam on a large river may help provide electricity and water to irrigate farmland near the reservoir. However, it may also cause drought downstream by severely reducing the flow of water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/water_rivers/drought_rev1.shtml

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