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Mon 03 Mar 2010More than 50 million hit by drought in south of China
CHINA WAS ravaged by extreme forces of nature as the country’s south wrestled with the worst drought in decades that has brought hardship to 51 million people, while a powerful sandstorm in the north turned Beijing’s sky orange.
The drought in the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, as well as the Guangxi Autonomous Region and the city of Chongqing, has forced local governments to tap underground water sources and use cloud seeding to produce rain for agricultural production.
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