Brutal droughts plague China

Local residents work to dredge a culvert to store water there in Shiqian, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on August 2, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

A villager surveys the dried floor of a reservoir in Shiqian, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on August 2, 2011.[Photo/Xinhua]

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