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This documentation seeks to solve the drought management problem by design of a Drought Early Warning and Management System (DEWMS). The Ministry of Agriculture, under which the Department
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Software development DROUGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTRODUCTION Historically, more emphasis has been placed on the response component of drought management, with little or no attention to mitigation, preparedness, prediction or monitoring. With the present awareness of the effects of ongoing climate change and global warning, the importance of a meteorological early warning system becomes more apparent. Since drought is a natural calamity, awareness only might not be sufficient to overcome this occurrence hence a system that handles both awareness and management of this disaster upon occurrence is imperative. Granted that there are numerous ways of combating drought, a well-structured system of integrating all these methodologies is required. Such as system has the advantage of being able to anticipate areas that may cut back on water supply requirements, ability to run more frequent forecasts of the expected water supply and also allow more accurately calibrated forecasts. All these seemingly hectic problems can be easily solved with...
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