Shanghai set to fight floods

SHANGHAI: To Xu Fang, who lives in a small house in Yangshupu Lu with her husband and their 3-year-old son, floods are a curse.

Every year during the wet summer season, her street gets flooded. Water seeps through the sandbags placed outside her door into the house.

"Whenever it rains for more than 30 minutes all the houses along my street get flooded," Xu said. Sometimes she has to wade through knee-deep water to get to the bus stop.