Apr 21, 2012

China Water shortages: Ms Fang's parched patch. @economist

Like many in south-west China over the past three years, Fang Haixin, a subsistence farmer near the village of Huopu in western Guizhou province, has learnt to grapple with the sort of drought conditions that, until now, were more commonly a feature of China’s dry northern plains.

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