Severe Drought Hits SW China
Xinhua News Agency, August 26, 2011 Adjust font size:
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A woman clears the dried-up crops to feed cattle at Qingshan Village of Zhanyi County in Qujing City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 25, 2011. The city is suffering the worst summer drought since records began in 1961. Altogether the drought in provinces of Yunan, Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan and the municipality of Chongqing has affected a combined 5.86 million hectares of crops in those regions, leaving a total of 12 million people and 9.17 million livestock short of drinking water. [Xinhua] |
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Lin Peihua, an official of the township government, shows the dried-up reservoir at Wangjia Town of Malong County in Qujing City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 25, 2011. Lin said the biggest worry now was people's drink water, as the whole city is suffering the worst summer drought since records began in 1961. Altogether the drought in provinces of Yunan, Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan and the municipality of Chongqing has affected a combined 5.86 million hectares of crops in those regions, leaving a total of 12 million people and 9.17 million livestock short of drinking water. [Xinhua] |
