Creating waves with a water project
By Gong Yidong | China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-29 07:30
Fruit growers revel in the opening of an irrigation station for their orchard in Mianyang, Sichuan province, last April. File photo |
Calluses on the shoulder, humps on the back; when drought comes, we search for water from dawn till night; when the rainy season comes, we rely on muddy water. Most of today's city dwellers, even many villagers, may not know this old Chinese song because they can get water simply by turning a tap. But Qu Wenke and his fellow villagers still remember the days when fetching water was backbreaking work.
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