A local villager irrigates the corn field suffering the severe drought in Changshun County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 14, 2010. A severe drought in southwest China, which local people say is the worst in a century, is forecast to linger till the start of the rainy season in May, according to two provincial meteorological stations in Yunnan and Guizhou. [Xinhua]

A local villager carries the water barrels to irrigate the field suffering the severe drought in Changshun County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 14, 2010. A severe drought in southwest China, which local people say is the worst in a century, is forecast to linger till the start of the rainy season in May, according to two provincial meteorological stations in Yunnan and Guizhou. [Xinhua]