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When we have a drought, it can affect our communities and our environment in many different ways. Everything in the environment is connected, just like everything in our communities is connected. Each different way that drought affects us is what we call an impact of drought.

Drought affects our lives in many different ways because water is such an important part of so many of our activities. We need water to live, and animals and plants do too. We need water to grow the food we eat. We also use water for many different things in our lives, like washing dishes, cooking, bathing, and swimming or river rafting. Water is also used to help make the electricity we use to run the lights in our houses and the video games you may like to play. When we don’t have enough water for these activities because of a drought, many people and many different things will be affected in many different ways.

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Examples of social impacts include:
Anxiety or depression about economic losses caused by drought
Health problems related to low water flows and poor water quality
Health problems related to dust
Loss of human life
Threat to public safety from an increased number of forest and range fires
Reduced incomes
People may have to move from farms into cities, or from one city to another
Fewer recreational activities
How can drought affect people?
Drought / By EarthProfessor
When desperate for water to drink, people will turn to untreated sources that can make them sick. Drought often creates a lack of clean water for drinking, public sanitation and personal hygiene, which can lead to a wide range of life-threatening diseases.

The answer is that drought conditions can also provide a substantial increase in wildfire risk.

What is the impact of drought?

Each different way that drought affects us is what we call an impact of drought. Drought affects our lives in many different ways because water is such an important part of so many of our activities. We need water to live, and animals and plants do too. We need water to grow the food we eat.

Drought can affect irrigated crop producers, by reducing yields, changing crop quality and even determining what crops you grow. Planning your fertilizer program based on anticipated yields and the crops you grow can save you money and protect the environment.

Some main secondary consumers in East Africa are the big cat ike the lion, cheetah, and leopards. The drought has these consumers by decreasing there food source. Some other consumers would be humans, wether they eat plants or animals, the drought has depleted their food source and caused a widepread famine .