Higher temperatures and low rainfall are forecast for those regions this month and next, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Tuesday.
By Tuesday, about 6.61 million people, mainly in Yunnan, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan and Hubei provinces, did not have adequate drinking water because of the drought, which has also affected 7.3 million hectares of farmland, the agency said.
“At present, the drought in the whole country is light compared with previous years,” said Zhang Xu, an official at the agency, at a news conference in Beijing. “But it is severe in some provinces, such as Yunnan and Sichuan.”
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