A villager carrying water in two buckets walks home while others
wait for their share at a water distribution center in Huocun
Village of Zizhong County, southwest China's Sichuan
Province?June 5.
Continuous drought has greatly affected people's daily life and
agricultural production in 46 counties of the province, threatening
drinking water supply for 3.98 million people and 116,000
livestock. Relief work is underway in these areas.
Villager Yao Shichuan, squatting atop a crackled fish pond, shows
the shells of mussel dying from dehydration in Wusi Village of
Zizhong County.
(Xinhua News Agency, China.org.cn June 7, 2007)
