Following are the key Impacts of Drought:
- Loss of water sources
- Less access to food
- Loss of livelihood
- Loss of fodder for livestock
- Livestock become feeble/weak
- Drop in market rates of livestock
- Migration of community
- Children drop out of schools
- Increase in malnutrition
- Increase in anemia and night blindness
- Increase in infant and maternal mortality rates
- Increase in debt burden of poor and poverty
- Increase in soil erosion and loss of soil fertility
- Loss of trees and vegetation (loss of biodiversity)
- Increase in desertification
- Increase in work burden of women
- Migrated family may become bonded laborer in Barrage areas
