Cuba Suffers Through The Worst Drought Of ‘The Last Century’

With the year-long drought in Cuba forecast to worsen in the coming months, some residents are harboring what may seem like an unusual hope.

Cuba reportedly put its civil defense system on alert due the continuing drought that has already depleted the country's reservoirs and destroyed thousands of acres of crops including coffee, rice, sugar cane and tobacco

With the rainy season expected to bring lower-than-average rainfall this year, experts say the drought will likely worsen in the coming months.

The Cuban government said emergency measures are already being “taken at all levels, including stricter rationing of water through the state-run waterworks

More than 1 million residents in the Caribbean country are now relying on trucked-in water to survive.

 A man fills bottles with water in the Consolacion del Sur neighborhood in the Pinar del Rio province, Cuba on August 19, 2015.