{"id":27249,"date":"2020-07-14T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-rushes-to-contain-floods-after-record-rainfall\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:27:00","slug":"china-rushes-to-contain-floods-after-record-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-rushes-to-contain-floods-after-record-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"#China rushes to contain floods after record rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#China rushes to contain floods after record rainfall<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Chinese soldiers erect a sandbag barrier along the shore of Poyang lake after heavy seasonal rains in Jiujiang, in China’s central Jiangxi province
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Soldiers erected sandbag flood barriers in a city near China’s largest freshwater lake after the heaviest rainfall in nearly six decades drenched the swollen Yangtze River basin.<\/p>\n

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The vast Yangtze drainage area has been lashed by torrential rains since last month, leaving 141 people dead or missing and forcing the evacuation of millions more across several provinces.<\/p>\n

Flooding along the river\u2014the world’s third longest\u2014has been an annual summer scourge since ancient times, but this year’s inundation has been especially severe.
\nThe downpours have intensified since last week, causing dozens of Yangtze-basin waterways to post record-high water levels, while more than 400 had exceeded warning levels, Vice Minister of Emergency Management Zheng Guoguang said on Monday.
\n“Since June, average precipitation in the Yangtze river basin has been the highest since 1961,” he told a news<\/a> briefing in Beijing.
\nAuthorities had been monitoring a flood crest as it neared Wuhan, the metropolis of 11 million that the Yangtze winds through and which had already suffered the vast number of China’s deaths and cases in the coronavirus pandemic, which first emerged in the city.
\nThey said river levels were decreasing after the crest passed Wuhan on Monday with no reports of major new flooding there.<\/p>\n

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\n Map showing provinces worst hit by flooding in China that has left more than 140 people dead as of July 13, 2020
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Record rainfall<\/b>
\nConcern was now shifting downstream to Poyang Lake, which drains into the Yangtze in hard-hit Jiangxi province and is the largest freshwater lake fully within China’s borders.
\nState-run Xinhua news agency said water levels at a key hydrological station on the lake broke a record set in 1998, when more than 4,000 people were killed in China’s worst flooding in recent decades.
\nState media<\/a> reported that more than 100,000 people\u2014including rescue personnel, soldiers, and ordinary citizens\u2014had been thrown into flood-control efforts in Jiangxi.
\nAround half of those were deployed at Poyang Lake, where many dikes and levees had collapsed, state television reported.
\nIn the city of Jiujiang, near where the lake drains into the Yangtze, soldiers wearing orange life vests fortified the river bank with a wall of sandbags piled as high as a man.<\/p>\n

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\n State media reported that more than 100,000 people\u2014including rescue personnel, soldiers, and ordinary citizens\u2014had been thrown into flood-control efforts in Jiangxi
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The Yangtze’s length is exceeded only by the Nile and the Amazon, and its drainage basin is home to around 400 million people.
\nSummer rains and seasonal glacial melt in the river’s Tibetan plateau headwaters cause routine annual flooding.
\nBut environmentalists say the threat has worsened over the decades due in part to rampant construction of dams and levees that have cut connections between the river and adjacent lakes and floodplains that for centuries had helped absorb the summer surge.
\nConservationists also warn that the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers due to climate change may lead to more dangerous summer flooding.<\/p>\n

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\n \u00a9 2020 AFP<\/p>\n

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