[EBH]

Photos reveal how bad it is. Another supply chain disruption coming if they do not get rain soon.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Why aren’t they doing solar and wind?

Aren’t the solar panels made in China?

[Hot Tabasco]

I thought China had catastrophic flooding not too long ago?

[mewzilla]

Photos...

Whose photos?

Trust but verify.

[Sertorius]

How many bodies did China find in the river bed?

[lilypad]

Oh dear where will they dump their garbage.

[bert]

They already got the rain in July of 2020 and July of 2021

[texas booster]

The exposed riverbed of Jialing River in Chongqing around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Photo: VCG

China’s Yangtze river basin faces low water levels in what is normally flood season, with exposed riverbeds showing cracks and connected freshwater lakes shrinking, amid a sustained heatwave.

Around 783,000 people in six province-level regions belonging to the Yangtze River basin, an area traditionally on flood alert from June to August, have been affected by drought this year and needed government support, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Interesting how hard it was too find a photo not covered by AP or Reuters copyright.

Please note that August is normally China's flood season on the Yangtze.

[texas booster]

Regions that rely on the Yangtze, China's longest river, are having to deploy pumps and cloud-seeding rockets as a long drought depletes water levels and threatens crops, and a heatwave is set to last another two weeks.

In the sprawling southwestern municipality of Chongqing, facing its second hottest summer since records began in 1961, 900 missiles have been made available to try to "seed" clouds and induce rain, media reported.

Other regions have launched their own weather modification operations.

China normally releases water from the Three Gorges reservoir to relieve drought on the Yangtze but downstream outflows are half the level of a year earlier, official data showed.

[moovova]

Incredible pictures.