Photo taken on Aug. 3, 2013 shows the Jiaosha River running through the severely drought-hit Huangping County of southwest China's Guizhou Province has already been cutoff. Lingering droughts in Guizhou have affected more than 13 million people. Over 2 million people lack adequate supplies of drinking water, and a total of 15.2 million mu (about one million hectares) of farmland is damaged by the drought. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) |