| Penniless and starving, farmers left their land in droves in the dustbowl days of the Great Depression. |
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| One in six rural children is being raised in poverty. Ever since the dustbowl of the 1930s, the heartland has been hopelessly dependent on government handouts. |
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| The dustbowl years of the 1930s drove many mid-western farmers off the land, but the discovery of the Ogallala, a huge underground aquifer stretching from South Dakota to west Texas, transformed agriculture's fortunes. |
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| Another challenge in a country so ravaged by climate change is to convince sceptics of the viability of bringing water and sanitation to people living in a dustbowl. |
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| Tigray, the once-lush region that in the first millennium hosted a wealthy interna-tional trading empire, is now a dustbowl circled by jagged crystalline rocks swept bare of topsoil. |
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| All the water's left town in Steinbeck's Depression-era classic about the migration of dustbowl sodbusters to the promised land of southern California. |
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