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Natural disasters or man-made disasters?

This year’s spring for most Chinese people is difficult. Few days ago, the dust storm attacked half of China, especially for the northwest of China. But, after that, the more difficult thing is continuously drought in five provinces in southwest of China recently. There are too much news happened during this disaster.
A 42 years old man sacrifices his life for searching water;
14 elderly knees down in order to ask the local government build a way to their village. What is the reason? Because, 4 years ago, they had paid the money to the local government for building the way; because they live in the mountains, and the mountain road is not wide enough, so the delivering water trucks can not reach their village directly, they have to walk 24 kilometers for getting water every day.
The lakes and well which local people live by have all dried up. Because of drought, the crops failed, the villagers will face shortage of food risks. Today, cleaning face and taking shower become a luxury. Even more, they do not have enough drinking water.
There are many factors lead to this situation, for example the government’s usual policies are not good enough; the local people probably focus on immediate interests and neglect the environment; the dry weather, it does not rain for a long time; also some people questioned, the water conservancy facilities are inadequate. Whatever, the local government should ensure the daily life of residents firstly.
Now, words can not render a true picture, the only way is the real photos, when you see the photos, that is only way to touch your soul deeply. Because of copyright, I can not post the relevant pictures on my blog, but I will link the relevant websites on my blog, you also can see the pictures.

March 27, 2010 - Posted by | Disasters

6 Comments »

  1. water is the source of life, the first is helping the victims of the disaster

    Comment by Susan | March 27, 2010 | Reply

    • yes, after this, the local government and local people should extract experience and draw a lesson. there are more or less human factors. what do you think?

      Comment by Harry | March 30, 2010 | Reply

  2. I saw few pictures about that, these people are difficult, also it is very hard for the children

    Comment by Zhangjia | March 29, 2010 | Reply

    • me too, I linked few websites which related to this content, you can read that, then leave me some opinions.

      Comment by Harry | March 30, 2010 | Reply

  3. there are some news about this disaster. one of them is the local people cut down many old trees, because of a papermaking company. sooooooooooo said.

    Comment by flyaway | March 29, 2010 | Reply

  4. our world need to be refreshed

    Comment by leechen | March 30, 2010 | Reply


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