The high temperature continues to cause the river to break, but the effect of drought is not only there.

Science Fiction Network August 16th (Liu Yazhu) This year continued to have high temperatures, which not only led to the case of heat irritation death in many countries. Recently, 51 rivers in Chongqing, Sichuan, my country, were broken. Rural water supply was affected by about 358,000 people.

According to surging news reports, the 51 rivers in Chongqing recently broke, 24 reservoirs were dry up, and 2138 eye electrical wells were insufficient. A few days ago, the water level in the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake were the lowest since the measured records, and the water storage of small reservoirs in some areas had a serious insufficient water storage, which caused the soil to be severely lacking in some areas.

Earlier, the Ministry of Water Resources issued a drought defense defense level IV emergency response to 6 provinces and cities including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, and Sichuan. At 18:00 on August 15th Class III.

Drought is generally a long -term phenomenon and is the main natural disaster facing humans. Today, freshwater resources in world water resources account for only 0.75%of all water resources, and with the expansion of population and economic development, the problem of water resources is increasing.

The drought brings not only damage to crops, but also an increase in the chances of economic, people's livelihood, ecological environment and fire. According to the announcement of the National Economic and Social Development Statistics of 2021 issued by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, China ’s direct economic losses caused a direct economic loss of 201 billion yuan due to drought disasters.

Faced with drought, even if technology is more developed now, it still causes catastrophic consequences. We should save water and reasonable water use to promote water -saving awareness to avoid waste of water resources.

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