Chinese Drillers Work Long Hours For Days To Build Well In Drought-Hit Province
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China's Jiangxi province raised its drought emergency response from Level III to Level IV.Jiujiang: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province told Reuters on Saturday."These villages, all of them, are particularly dry," said Gao Pucha, 42, who led one drilling team in Dashan village in Jiujiang."When we got the notice to drill wells, we got up early and worked late, more than 15 hours a day."In another nearby village, a 72-year-old man surnamed Chen scoured the fields for ears of rice left over from the paddy harvester to take home and feed to his chickens."Sesame, corn, sweet potatoes, cotton in the drylands are all dried up," Chen told Reuters....