Posted on 08/19/2022 4:07:05 AM PDT by EBH
BEIJING (AP) — Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low in a worsening drought, adding to economic strains at a time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power.
Companies in Sichuan province including makers of solar panels, cement and urea closed or reduced production after they were ordered to ration power for up to five days, according to news reports Wednesday. That came after reservoir levels fell and power demand for air conditioning surged in scorching temperatures.
“Leave power for the people,” said an order from the provincial government dated Tuesday.
In Sichuan, which has 94 million people, water levels at hydropower reservoirs are down by as much as half this month, according to the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology.
...Areas across central and northern China ordered emergency measures to ensure drinking water supplies after summer rain was as little as half normal levels. The official Xinhua News Agency said firetrucks carried water to two dry villages near Chongqing in the southwest.
Hundreds of thousands of hectares (acres) of crops across central and northern China wilted due to lack of water and high temperatures, according to the government. Some areas reported the summer growing season a failure.
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Who do they think they are? California?
I have great affection for Chinese people, and hope they overthrow their lunatic government because of all this suffering.
I’d trust but verify on the drought story.
Waiting for Brandon to tell us he is diverting water from Lake Mead and $$$$ relief funds to China.
The CCP has to lose this clown. Thank God they have their own Brandon effing things up.
This Taiwan bullshit is his last ace in the hole. The Shanghai faction want him out.
For a good canary in the coal mine look at Thailand. They always side with the wrong side in the beginning and then switch. They are the only SE Asian country siding with the chicoms.
“I have great affection for Chinese people...”
I don’t. The only reason that Chinese people aren’t the rudest people on Earth is because there are Indian people.
Wasn’t it about a year ago, they were having floods up the yang yang, or was it the Yangtze? 🤪
Ever live here? I have for 20 years. The Chinese are the most racist people on Earth. I have many Chinese friends who joke that they are even more racist to other Chinese.
Many preppers own lots of guns, body armor, survival food etc, but they rely on piped-in “city water.”
Water security is probably the #1 overlooked survival item.
3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
What will happen to your neighborhood and in your house if the taps run dry and no more “city water” flows?
If the govt is still powerful, you will probably be forced onto a bus or truck and “relocated.”
If the govt has disappeared, life will go “Mad Max” very fast.
So friggen true. I’d posit that the Indians are also the most arrogant gang of jerkoffs I’ve ever worked with.
It’s a gigantic country. They border the Gobi desert in the west and the east is a floodplain. So they’ve got that going for them.
Yep. I’m an engineer, and that’s my take.
Clannish douchebags.
Yep. Hire one and the next thing you know you’re surrounded like Custer...
Didn’t they just have massive floods, almost topped a dam?
I’ve worked with Seiks who are a different breed. Usually pretty decent.
“..Waiting for Brandon to tell us he is diverting water from Lake Mead and $$$$ relief funds to China....”
Don’t give the Potato Head, and its vile ilk of flying monkeys, any ideas. /s
I’ve never worked with a Sikh.
To where? The FEMA camps? By the way, I have a high school classmate, who used to work for FEMA. She said, to the best of her knowledge, there were no FEMA camps in existence yet, but if they wanted to, the government could build them in weeks.
Turn off air conditioners....fans work. I’m in upstate NY and have only used a little $15 fan in my 1000 SF apt.. It’s the best thing I bought in the last 5 years.
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