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Detailed explanation-1: -Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage.

Detailed explanation-2: -When rainfall is less than normal for a period of weeks to years, streamflows decline, water levels in lakes and reservoirs fall, and the depth to water in wells increases. If dry weather persists and water-supply problems develop, the dry period can become a drought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Drought is characterized by a lack of precipitation, such as rain, snow, or sleet, for a protracted period, resulting in a water shortage. The average precipitation is low even if the amount of precipitation at a particular location varies from year to year. Plants die when soils dry out because of little to no rain.

Detailed explanation-4: -A drought is defined as “a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.”-Glossary of Meteorology (1959).