Two children walk on the dry riverbed of Laodao River in Liuyang
County of Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on August 6, 2007. Sustained
high temperature and lack of rainfall has caused the worst drought
in 50 years in the provincial capital, threatening water supplies
of 162,700 residents in 111 towns and villages.
A man walks on a dried-up reservoir in Liuyang County of
Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on August 6, 2007.
A woman squats over a dried-up reservoir in Liuyang County of
Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on August 6, 2007.
A local resident shows large swathes of dried-up farmland in
Liuyang County of Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on
August 6, 2007.
Local villagers dig wells for irrigating dried-up farmland in
Liuyang County of Changsha, central China's Hunan Province on
August 6, 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency August 8, 2007)