ApocaDocs: Yunnan, Guangxi reel from severe drought

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Posted Thu Feb 4 2010: from China Daily:


	Yunnan, Guangxi reel from severe drought http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1265306902 The worst drought in 50 years is leaving millions of people and animals without drinking water in Yunnan province and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Zhu Zhenghong, 76, from Niubi village in the mountains outside Kunming, capital of Yunnan, sits on a huge rock outside his home at 10 am and 2 pm every day. "I am waiting for the drinking water sent by the government that is the most important thing to me now," he told China Daily yesterday. In Zhu's village, a total of 455 villagers are suffering from the drought, which has killed almost all the corn and bean crops in their fields. "I haven't seen any rain since last September and the stream on the mountain has dried up," Zhu said.

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'Doc Michael says:

And government water... just doesn't taste that good.