In China, the Yangtze River’s water levels “have been falling rapidly due to a drought and a heatwave in China’s southwestern region,” CNN says (read story here).
“Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been around 45% lower than normal,” CNN said. “As many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in Chongqing have dried up, state broadcaster CCTV said on August 19.”
A couple days ago, ABC News reported (here), “Factories in Sichuan province and the adjacent metropolis of Chongqing in the southwest were ordered to shut down after reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels,” noting the river has shrunk to “barely half its normal width.” (See photo.)
Climate change. If this keeps up, China will have built its Three Gorges Dam for nothing.
