1.   For decades, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and its irrigation districts have plumbed the arid West, bringing water to a parched land and making the deserts bloom.

2.   Fires on such deeply parched land can smolder for days, he said, threatening any time to burst back into flame.

3.   This is a post-apocalyptic place of felled cities, parched land and downtrodden people.

4.   After three weeks of searing heat, Romanians are calling on the gods to bring rain to their parched land.

5.   Burning winds whip over the parched land.

6.   Much of the film takes place in the African desert, with Scott Thomas enduring sandstorms and trekking through the parched land.

7.   Most fires in the West spread quickly through parched land.

8.   Most fires were started by lightning strikes and spread quickly through parched land.

9.   Most of the fires in the West were started by lightning and spread quickly through parched land.

10.   The parched land is now covered by dry weeds and rocks.