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- 1Severe drought grips Puerto Rico, satellite images show●# PuertoRico leidet unter schwerer # Dürre . Mitte September waren 37 % der Insel von extremer Dürre betroffen. Besonder
Puerto Rico is suffering a severe drought, with 37 percent of the island in extreme drought by mid-September. The agriculturally important Lajas Valley in the southwest has been hit particularly hard. Imagery from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite shows how the landscape has dried out, underscoring the scale of the water shortage facing farmers and communities across the island.