Efforts made to ease SW drought
China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-29 07:55
A boy fills a bottle with water collected from a cave in the drought-hit Luoping county, Qujing, Yunnan province. A severe drought across a large swathe of southwest China is now affecting more than 50 million people and forecasters see no signs of it abating in the short term. Bruce Li / For China Daily |
Almost twenty million people left thirsty by rare water shortages
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