NE China suffers worst drought in 30 years
20 June 2007
Northeast China's Liaoning province is suffering its worst summer drought in 30 years that has left more than 1 million people short of drinking water, the provincial government said, Xinhua (in Chinese). The drought has affected 1.27 million people, 473,800 cattle and 1.4 million hectares of cropland, the authorities said. Nearly all 14 cities in Liaoning Province have been affected by the drought, though the situation is more serious in the northwestern and south-central parts of the province, where 88 small and medium-sized reservoirs have dried up, the provincial flood prevention and drought control headquarters said on Tuesday. The government has managed to transport water from the humid areas in the eastern part of the province, but so far only 88,500 of the affected population have had access to water ferried in by water wagons.
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