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China Daily | Updated: 2016-04-07 08:14
Clockwise from top: A farmer in Ben Tre province carries parched rice straw to feed cattle on Saturday. A boy looks for fish in a nearly dry canal in the Long Phu district in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang in early March. A woman and her son wash bags in the Mekong River on Monday. Vietnam has been struck by its worst drought in nearly a century and salinization of water is hitting farmers in the delta. China released an emergency water supply from its Jinghong Hydropower Station in Yunnan province to feed the downstream Mekong River from March 15 to April 10 to alleviate the devastating situation. Photos by Xinhua, Wang Jian / China Daily and Provided to China Daily
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