Drought in southwest China affecting millions

Over one million people in southwestern China are estimated to be facing a drinking-water shortage as two separate droughts continue to affect the area.

According to provincial drought relief authorities, the combination of dry weather and high temperatures in Guizhou and neighboring Yunnan province has already affected over a million people, and at least 100,000 livestock and roughly 68,000 hectares (168,000 acres) of crops in the farming province are also affected.