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the fact that the drought has hung on means greater pressure on water use in urban areas. to ensure the well-being of residents, the state will have to put more limits on water usage by factories. it could mean a rise in industrial production costs.
q: what's the solution how long will it take?
a: some areas got a touch of rain and sleet over the weekend after clouds were "seeded" with thousands of rockets ?and cannon shells loaded with silver iodide pellets.
in addition, more than 5 billion cubic meters of water have been diverted from the yellow river. more water from the yangtze and the yellow rivers could be diverted to drought-hit areas.
irrigation covered 52.7 percent of the wheat land in drought-hit provinces by saturday. but the drought could persist into march, with the dominant weather pattern across the north not expected to change in the near term.
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