Water Scarce
In addition to problems with the Yangtze, on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said that at least 66 rivers in 34 provinces in the country’s southwest had dried up. Last week, state media reported that fire trucks have had to deliver drinking water and irrigation water to villages outside the city of Chongqing. The Sichuan government said some 819,000 people could have shortages of drinking water, while the province of Hubei on Saturday declared a drought emergency.
