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Drought and links to other disasters

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====Gender====
[[Image:women collecting water.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Woman collecting water. Photo: [http://www.wateraidamerica.org/ Water Aid] / Layton Thompson.]]
* Drought negatively impacts well-being of women and girls who will spend more time collecting firewood, collecting water from increasingly distant sources, attending to sick family members and cultivating land (most agricultural activities undertaken by women).
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====Water wars and conflict====
[[Image:water wars.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Blue Gold: Water Wars, the movie. Image: [http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/ Bluegold-worldwaterwars.com.]]]
* Drought can increase conflict. Although complex to link as cause and effect, in some areas (e.g. Darfur) drought has resulted in differing interpretations of rights to access water and land among nomadic and sedentary groups, contributing to the escalation of ethnic tensions.
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