Question

1.)________ and 2.)_________ can help reduce the effects of droughts.

1.
Building resistant structure
Building safe houses
Constructing dams
Using hurricane ties

2.
Building desalination plants
Using rain gauges
Using seismographs
Using snowplows

Answer 1

constructing dams and building desalination plants help reduce the effects of droughts

Answer 2

Answer: Constructing dams, Building desalination plants.

A drought is a natural disaster that occur in a region that receives very low precipitation. The region exhibit desert like conditions such as hot and dry climate, compact and infertile soil, and scanty available water resources. Constructing dams can preserve the available water resource, it will also help in preserving the surrounding soil in maintaining the moisture content. If the available water is saline. Then the salinity can be removed by the desalination process and the water can be used.