A senior drought relief official has warned of mounting challenges in providing drinking water for millions of people if the worst drought to hit the southwest in nearly a century persists.
The price of rice in most shops in this Guangdong provincial capital have increased 10 percent in the past month due to the severe drought in southwestern China.
China's Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) said Sunday the country will step up water conservation infrastructure construction to better cope with natural disasters.
Meteorologists have attributed the once-in-a-century drought parching southwest China to climate change.
Southwest China's Yunnan Province intends to send more migrants to work outside the province as severe drought worsens.
Meteorological authorities of southwestern Yunnan province are gearing up to induce more artificial rain as light to moderate rain was forecast to sweep the drought-stricken province from west to east for three days from Saturday.
China is mobilizing its troops to help the struggling people in the country's drought affected southwest.
Artificial rain to ease drought in SW China
Drought to challenge inflation management
The current drought in southwest China that has threatened grain production in the region would not have a major impact on national food prices, experts said, but added that the risk of inflation may rise if the drought spreads further.
The severe drought in southwest China has greatly influenced the local liquor business. Photos
China drills more wells amid drought
Yunnan's flower industry wilting
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The severe drought in Southwest China has seriously affected Yunnan's flower industry - one of the chief industries in the province.
Long distance to the water supply station poses big challenges to the elderly in long-term drought affected areas.
A woman standing in a nearly dried-up cistern tries to drink from the fountain in Luoping county, southwest China's Yunnan province, on March 24, 2010.
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