More than 4.4m people and 2.2m cattle face shortages of drinking water across at least eight provinces which contain about half the country's wheat growing areas, the ministry of water resources said yesterday.
Weather-control officials across the country fired artillery shells and rockets filled with rainmaking chemicals over the weekend while military aircraft were used to seed clouds across northern and central provinces.
The same technology was used to create rain and to clear pollution over Beijing in the weeks preceding last summer's Olympics.
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