While Reclamation cannot prevent historic droughts like the ones that many Western states are experiencing this year, our success in storing water that can be used in such times has enabled Western communities to grow and thrive.

Drought map of Kansas link to real-time data for stream gaging stations and links to historic droughts of Kansas, ground water, drought definitions, and references.

But to the south and southwest of that jet stream, a stifling heat dome blossomed and the moisture abruptly shutoff leading to historic drought.

The historic drought ended with historic flooding in 2009.

During the Summer of 2007, Villaraigosa challenged Los Angeles residents to slash their water use by 10% in the face of a historic drought.

The Sahel drought was a series of historic droughts, beginning in at least the 17th century affecting the Sahel region, a climate zone sandwiched between the African savanna grasslands to the south and the Sahara desert to the north, across West and Central Africa.

Due to the aristocratic backgrounds of many of the new colonists, a historic drought and the communal nature of their work load, progress through the first few years was inconsistent, at best.

But that is not Lewis's fault; the heavyweight ranks are in a historic drought.

Due to a historic drought in the late 2000s, Atlanta lost trees at an unprecedented rate.

Down the dirt rut that passes for a main street in Zhao Chang, where Mr. Tian lives, the village Communist Party secretary, Tian Wan Ling, said that the region was only suffering from a "historic drought."