China: Some provinces in the south may experience continuous drought in autumn, winter and spring

Recently, severe meteorological droughts have occurred in some provinces in southern my country, such as Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces. Some of them even started in the autumn of last year and may extend to the "autumn, winter and spring" continuous droughts this spring. What happened to the south? The reporter conducted an in-depth interview for this. According to statistics from the Ministry of Water Resources: As of January 26, the country’s arable land was affected by drought on 7.13 million mu, and 170,000 rural people had difficulty drinking water due to drought. Many cities and counties in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Yunnan and other provinces There is a shortage of water supply in cities and towns, and emergency measures such as time-limited, limited, and pressure-limited water supply need to be taken to guarantee basic domestic water, affecting about 1.4 million people. However, Sanmen County, Zhejiang Province, has suspended the entire county from January 25. Water ...