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An ongoing heat wave is causing drought and creating a massive shortage of water in central and southwest China. Farmers are struggling to irrigate their crops... faced with their farmlands becoming nothing more than a desert.
A constant heat wave has produced a drought in central and southwest China, leading to a drought in the region.
Agricultural lands end up with big cracks as farmers put in great effort to find irrigation water for their crops. In Xinhuang County of central Hunan Province, the size of the cracks are as big as a fist.
According to China's State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the drought has affected more than a million acres of farmland in southwest Guizhou Province.
The drought has led to a lack of drinking water for about a million residents and more than half a million farm animals.
In Xifeng County of Guiyang City, corn production has dwindled. Reservoirs are drying up… their levels are 20 percent less than last year.
The drought in Xiangyang, Suizhou, Xiaogan, and other cities in central Hubei Province has affected about three-quarter of a million acres of agricultural lands.
Some villagers think of innovative ways to irrigate their farmlands. They turn trucks into water carts and mobilize a working group for water deliveries.
[Xiang Yuanlin, Changping Village Resident]:
"It works quite well. One truck is able to deliver water for eight times and the water is enough for the irrigation of five acres."
State-run media Xinhua reports that more than eight million people were affected by drought in Guizhou Province last June alone.