The drought in Hunan Province has aggravated development.

The reporter learned from the Office of the Flood Control and Drought Resistance Headquarters (referred to as the "Provincial Defense Office") on September 7 that the province's drought continued and showed an aggravated development trend. At present, weather droughts in 122 counties (cities, districts) in the province, of which 120 counties (cities, districts) have reached moderate and more meteorological drought levels, and large hydrological droughts occur in some areas.

Actively cope with drought. The Provincial Defense Office and the Provincial Department of Water Resources held a timely conference scheduling meeting to analyze and judge the situation of drought conditions. The Office of the Provincial Disaster Reduction Commission and the Provincial Department of Emergency Management promoted the emergency response of the provincial natural disaster rescue to the level III. The housing construction, ecological environment, water conservancy and other departments have continued to strengthen urban water supply and river water level flow monitoring.

Continue to strengthen water adjustment. The water conservancy departments at all levels jointly dispatched large and medium -sized reservoirs, with a total hydration of about 3.7 billion cubic meters, ensuring that more than 20 million people and more than 15 million acres of crop water needed water demand. Tongting Lake District adopts measures such as inner lake water storage, northern water replenishment, well -raising water, and water diversion of the river. Through the cumulative water lifting of 730 million cubic meters of water and mobile pumps. Lake area drought.

The Provincial Defense Office requires that party committees and governments at all levels must organize cadres and masses to actively participate in the front line of drought resistance and disaster reduction. By strengthening channels such as channel dredging, water diversion and water, water -seeking wells, manual rainfall, and timely replenishment and irrigation, they will consolidate drought resistance. Support. (All media reporter Feng Yongcheng)

[Edit: Lu Wei Tang Jiajun (Internship)]

[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]

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