Pages

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wanting water

The Jakarta Post, The Associated Press, Wed, 03/24/2010 1:49 PM


Students queue for water sent by the local government in drought-stricken Reshui Town, in China’s Yunnan province. The worst drought in decades in China's southern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, as well as the Guangxi Autonomous Region and the city of Chongqing, has forced local governments to tap underground water sources and use cloud seeding to produce rain for agricultural production. AP/Xinhua, Lin Yiguang

Related Articles:

An Environmentalist’s View on China’s Drought

Severe drought hits south-west China

Families, crops and livestock have been hit hard by the drought


No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.