China’s ‘land of a thousand lakes’ dries up
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A severe drought China’s Hubei province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs unusable, the China Daily reported the local water authority as saying yesterday. Known as the ‘land of a thousand lakes’, Hubei has suffered from five-month drought, which has seen the Yangtze River narrow by 50 metres compared to last year. Yesterday, Yuan Junguang, Director of the Reservoir Management Office of Hubei Provincial Water Resources Department, was reported saying that water level in four medium-sized and 1,388 smaller reservoirs has dropped below the permissible discharge level for irrigation and other purposes. An estimated 315,000 people in the province are now short of drinking water, the report added.
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