Zhejiang, which was hit by floods last summer, has seen a massive drop in precipitation year-on-year in recent months, leading to a major drought that has cut off water sources and bottomed out mountain ponds in many places to varying degrees. According to official reports, water supply is tightening in 21 counties (cities and districts) and 1,035 villages across the province. Some people told “Voice of Hope” that they can only buy mineral water to drink at present.
Comprehensive land media reports, from October 16 to December 31, 2020, the average precipitation in Zhejiang province 55 mm, 53% less than the same period of the year, including Wenzhou, Taizhou, Lishui, Ningbo precipitation deficit of about 60%. Some coastal counties and cities are not enough water, Wailing, Yuhuan, Sanmen, Xiangshan and other places of varying degrees of water disconnection, the bottom of the mountain ponds.
According to the statistics of Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Quzhou, Taizhou, Zhoushan, Lishui and other seven cities, as of December 28, the province’s 21 counties (cities, districts), 1,035 villages appear water supply tension.
A resident of Shaliu, Sanmen County, Zhejiang Province, said today (Jan. 5, 2021) that the drought has seriously affected the daily lives of locals: “The trouble is pretty big now. Some are still better. That mountain water is next, there is still something to drink. That big reservoir is all dried up, there is no water.”
She said that there is no mountain water near them, the tap water and can not drink, can only buy mineral water to drink, “is that the tap water put out can not eat, very yellow, very dirty.” “Recently these days are bought those mineral water. Buy a few days.”
She said she has not yet heard how the government can solve the problem.
A citizen of Yueqing told reporters that the local is “every other day to stop the water. To reserve water.”
A resident of Yuhuan County Stack Head said that the local water is sent from Yuhuan, “for several months, has been (water company) sent, …… water boat once every three days.
According to reports, Wenling City has launched a drought Ⅱ emergency response, Yuhuan City, Sanmen County, Xiangshan County for the drought Ⅲ emergency response, Yinzhou District started a large song area water supply drought Ⅳ emergency response.
According to the current weather forecast results, the drought may further develop.
Just this past year, Zhejiang suffered a variety of disasters, flooding in the summer, the official notification, resulting in the province’s affected population 184,000 people, emergency relocation of 52,000 people, crop disaster area of 11,000 hectares, collapsed more than 1,000 houses, direct economic losses of 710 million yuan; into August and a succession of typhoons hit; since October and drought.
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