Published on: 15/08/2011
A drought in southwest China has left over two million people short of drinking water, the government said.
Guizhou province has been under the grip of a drought since early July 2011. Rainfall last month was 70 percent less than average, according to new agency Xinhua.
The drought has affected over one million hectares of crops and left 760,000 livestock short of drinking water. This has caused an economic loss of more than six billion yuan (US$ 923 million).
Source: ©Indo-Asian News Service, MSN News, 12 Aug 2011
