Yangtze hit by drought in China
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Severe drought has left water levels in the Yangtze river at a 142-year low, Chinese media reports.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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At least 100 people are dead and scores are missing in some of the heaviest rains and floods southern China has seen in years. Disaster relief officials said Monday at least 67 people have been killed in Sichuan
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A storm in China&#39;s southwest has left at least 79 people dead and 74 missing after heavy rain caused bridges to collapse and triggered floods and landslides, Agence France-Presse said, citing disaster relief workers.
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Torrential rains in eastern and southwestern China have taken at least another 38 lives as a grim rainy season continued, with hundreds killed since the start of the month, state press said Thursday.
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At least 21 people are killed by flash floods and mudslides in south-western China, reports say.
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BEIJING, China -- Torrential floods in southwest China have killed as many as 100 people prompting officials to call in the military to help rescue scores of people and locate dozens of missing.
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Groundwater levels are dropping around China, where leaders face tough choices as cities, industry and farming compete for an unbalanced and finite water supply.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
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Mudslides and floods caused by torrential rains, and lightning strikes in southwestern China's Sichuan province have killed 43 people and left many homeless over the past week, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China&#39;s southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
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China&#39;s Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing, while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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BEIJING - Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday.
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Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.
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BEIJING  - At least 143 people in southwestern China have been killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains, officials and state television reported Tuesday.
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At least 143 people have died in China in flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains, the official Xinhua new agency reports.