In China, Drought Leaves 670,000 Without Water. By Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters, April 14, 2008. "A drought in China's northeast Liaoning province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water after rainfall in the first three months of 2008 tumbled to one-fifth levels last year... The area is a top grain producer, and maize and rice farming is due to begin next week, but from January to the end of March it had got less than... an inch of rain... Drought and floods are perennial problems in China... Its meteorologists have said global climate change is exacerbating extreme weather, including droughts."
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