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A severe drought in Caridad, Valle, has wiped out up to 100% of some harvests and depleted water supplies, affecting about 800 farmers, with the mayor warning that reduced local production could drive up food prices as dependence on outside sources grows.

A prolonged drought in Yoro has killed at least 400 head of cattle in the municipalities of Olanchito, Arenal, and Jocón, prompting a congressman to call for an emergency assessment by agricultural and disaster-response authorities.

The emergency agency Copeco has placed 75 municipalities under yellow alert and 48 under green alert due to drought conditions worsened by the dry season, with about one million people facing direct effects including crop losses and water shortages.

A prolonged drought in San Antonio de Flores, Choluteca, has killed more than 100 cattle since February and forced small ranchers to sell hundreds more as authorities declared a yellow alert and the mayor requested expanded government aid.

The capital's municipal government planted 100 trees on the iconic Juana Laínez Hill in a reforestation effort aimed at strengthening vegetation cover and reducing climate-change impacts on the urban zone, with students from five schools participating in the environmental education initiative.

Environment Minister Juan Carlos Ramos is pushing Congress to approve a solid-waste law that has cleared first debate, saying it would unlock international funding for sanitary landfills and improve trash collection across Honduras's 298 municipalities.

Geographer Carlos Héctor Sabillón warned that Honduras faces water shortages from decades of poor planning and urged the government to adopt a long-term national strategy to capture rainfall, reforest watersheds, and build storage infrastructure.

Tegucigalpa faces a severe drought, with its two main reservoirs at critical levels (Los Laureles at 39.88% capacity, La Concepción at 35.19%), prompting authorities to tighten rationing for 1.6 million people and warning reserves could be exhausted by late August without significant rainfall.

A grain producer warns that an extended dry season from mid-July through early October, driven by climate change and El Niño, could reduce maize and bean output by roughly two million quintals (about 90,000 metric tons) in the dry corridor, deepening food insecurity for subsistence farming families.

The Los Laureles and La Concepción reservoirs serving Tegucigalpa hold only 36.6% and 42.2% of their respective capacities, maintaining a high-risk water alert for the capital as authorities urge rational use.