Thirsting for a solution
By Fu Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-25 07:52
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Lan Wuhua, 31, uses a fresh water well plumbed by Oxfam Hong Kong in Huolianwan village, Gansu province, where residents have struggled to get access to clean drinking water. |
After nine months without seeing a drop of rain, farmers in Northwest China's Gansu province had no choice but to head for the nearby temples and pray. Not only did they desperately need water to irrigate crops, they also needed it to quench their own painful thirst.
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