Families dig for victory over severe drought

FUYUAN, Yunnan - Deng Fenxian and her husband are busy digging a hole these days to build a water cellar to fight a severe drought in the southwest of the country.

Overnight, building water cellars instead of finding water topped the agendas of all the 149 families in Heinitang village, Fuyuan county of Yunnan province, after the local government said it would later try to fill them.

A water cellar looks like a 3-meter-deep jar half buried in the ground, which can meet a family-of-three's needs for water for half a year.