The Bunong define drought as a delay of the wet season by two months. Since 1997, the villagers have observed increasing delay in the arrival of the wet season − formerly it arrived at the end of April but this has changed to the beginning of June. The extended dry period puts stress on water resources; recently, some villagers resorted to purchasing water through micro-finance loans in order to meet domestic and livestock needs. Villagers have witnessed increased variability in rainfall intensity and, since the 1990s, severe soil erosion and flood events that damage agricultural crops (McAndrew and Il, 2008).