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High Temperatures ‘Are Very Annoying’

Gan Bingdong at his community’s dried-up reservoir.
Gan Bingdong at his community’s dried-up reservoir. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein (AP)

Gan Bingdong, a farmer who lives south of Chongqing, showed the AP how his persimmon trees have died, while his eggplant crop is puny; Gan said he had been forced to pump groundwater to water his crops after the reservoir he usually uses has run dry.

“This year’s high temperatures are very annoying,” Gan told the AP.