By expelling their body's water and transforming into a seemingly lifeless ball called a tun, they enter a state of dried-up suspended animation in which they can survive for decades without food ...

This would result in an inevitable drought and begin with the depletion of agricultural land as it dried up. This atmospheric thirst is more about how much water the air can pull from the land.

Abbas Elwan drilled well after well in a desperate bid to find water for his ... found her husband's body the next day with a gunshot wound to the head in a dried-up irrigation canal near the ...