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and then kept for feeding theFriday, 4 June 2010 by Bluenesslan  Bluenesslan Agonizing trek for water Living in a remote village more than 1,700 meters above sea level, six-year-old Yu Jinzhen and her family have to fetch water from more than seven kilometers away. All sources of drinking water in her village in Sichuan Province dried up in November last year. Since then, the villagers have been forced to RuneScape Gold, trek those seven kilometers to the foot of the mountain and back for water. They carry the water themselves or have it hauled by horses. Yu belongs to a family of five with two pigs, one cow and RuneScape Gold four sheep; and she, along with other villagers, has to transport water every day. With the burden of two five-liter plastic cans on her back, she can barely breathe on the mountain road. But the water she brings is enough for the family\'s daily needs. Some of the water is first used for washing, and then kept for feeding the animals. The liquid is so precious that archlord gold, she would not drink so much as a drop of it while carrying it up. Her hardship is a grim reminder of the deprivation endured by over 80,000 people and 120,000 livestock reeling under the effects of drought in Leibo county for the last seven months. Not having taken a shower since last fall, she said archlord gold what she wants most is nothing but a heavy downpour. Mass migration from Hubei A massive relocation of about 80,000 people will begin early next month in Hubei Province to make way for the nation\'s South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Within two months, residents living around the last chaos gold, Danjiangkou reservoir will be relocated to 194 scattered locations in seven cities across the province, the local immigration office said. The reservoir is the water source for last chaos gold the central route of the diversion project. \"We set a deadline because the new school semester as well as the farm harvest starts by September,\" said Yang Zhiyong, chief of the immigration office in Xiangfan, the city that will host one third of the migrants. The province relocated more than 10,000 people during a trial period last year. Xu Tengfang, vice director of the provincial immigration office, said relocation is not an easy task, even though the government has offered favorable incentives to move, including farmland twice the size of land News category : Blogs 0 comments.
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