No relief to the drought in the southeast. Xinhua reports that approaching half a million people in Jiangxi face drinking water shortages. Nine rivers in the province are said to be at their lowest record levels. Attempts to create artificial rain have failed and the hot, dry weather expected to last into mid-November.
The drought-causing hot, [...]
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October 27, 2009
Drought In Southeast Worsens
October 24, 2009
Drought Persists In South and East China
The hot dry weather in the south and east is causing drought to linger in both regions. Xinhua reports low reservoir levels in Guangdong where rainfall in the first ten months of this year has been 14% below normal. Water levels are also low in neighboring Jiangxi to the east after a month without rain [...]
October 18, 2009
Mass Resettlements Start To Irrigate North China
Plans to bring water to the arid drought-plagued North China Plain and its fast-growing cities like Beijing and Tianjin, are typically sweeping. Just as typically, they involve the mass resettlement of a third of a million people.
The plans call for drawing water off three western and southern rivers through a series of canals and pipes. [...]
September 4, 2009
Drought Hits Southwestern China
Drought is now affecting southwestern Guangxi, the country’s largest sugar cane producer and a significant fruit growing region. While hot dry summers are typical, local authorities say this is the driest summer for 58 years. Though temperatures have not been much above average, rainfall has been 13% less than average this year with the past [...]
August 25, 2009
Drought Eases Slightly In North China
Rain and artificial rain making have brought some relief to the parched grain-growing provinces of north China that have been suffering drought since July. Officials said the affected area of farmland had shrunk to 126 million mu, 65 million mu less than the peak figure.
August 23, 2009
North China Water Shortages Worsen
More than 4.5 million people are now left short of drinking water as the severe drought in the north spreads, Xinhua reports, while a new hot dry spell to the south threatens new water shortages in Hunan and Hubei in central China. More than four million head of livestock are at risk and 133 million [...]
August 18, 2009
North China Drought Spreads
Typhoon season may be battering the coasts, but northern China and Inner Mongolia are parched for lack of rain. Between Aug.1st and Aug.16th, the area had just 50 mm of rain, with some places getting less than 10 mm as hot, dry weather carried on from July. Liaoning, Jilin and Inner Mongolia are experiencing the [...]
February 17, 2009
After Drought, Sandstorms
This may not come as a great surprise to anyone who has had to put up with a rasping sore throat in Springtime, but sandstorms are now being predicted to follow the drought that has stricken northern China’s wheat growing heartland. The forecast comes from Li Weijing, deputy director-general of the National Climate Center, in [...]
February 13, 2009
Raindrops Are Falling
Parts of parched northeastern China have had showers over the past 36 hours and more are in the 3-day forecast, but they will provide minimal relief. Rain-making operations and diverting river water have meant that more than 60% of the winter wheat fields in the eight provinces on the North China Plain have now been [...]
February 8, 2009
Rain-Making On The North China Plain
More than 2,300 artillery shells and 400 rockets were fired Saturday as officials tried to make rain over the drought-stricken North China plain. The China Meteorological Administration said these operations brought an average 0.5 millimeters of rainfall to 17 counties and cities in Henan province. Other areas of the plain saw one to five millimeters [...]
