One million in China face water shortage  
  
A severe drought in southwestern China is threatening the water supplies of one million people and crippling navigation on the depleted Yangtze River, state media reported on Monday.
Authorities in Chongqing municipality have sent water trucks into the most parched areas to provide water for residents and livestock hit by weeks without rain, Xinhua news agency said.
Water levels on the Yangtze, China's longest river, have decreased rapidly and officials halted navigation near Chongqing city on Monday after a barge carrying 1,400 tons of timber became stranded for several hours, it said.
One of Chongqing's largest drinking water suppliers said the water level had fallen below most of the pipes the company uses to draw water from the river.
"If the water levels in the Yangtze and its upper tributary Jialing River continue to decline, we'll face a real crisis," Xinhua quoted a spokesman with Shapingba Waterworks as saying.
The region is still reeling from a severe drought last summer, the worst in decades, which forced tens of thousands of farmers to leave in search of work elsewhere. Chongqing municipality is home to about 30 million people.  
  
  
中国大西南的一场严重旱灾不仅影响了当地一百多万居民的饮水问题，而且恶化了长江日益萎缩的航道。

重庆市已连续数周滴水未降，当地政府已经开始使用卡车运水来解决旱情严重地区居民，牲畜的饮水之急。

长江的水位也下降很快，一艘满载1400吨木材的驳船搁浅数小时后，为保航运安全，当地政府关闭了重庆周边的航道。

一家重庆的供水公司说，由于长江水位持续下降，大部分进水管道已经露出水面，无水可供了。

新华社引用重庆市沙坪坝供水系统发言人的话说，“如果长江和嘉陵江的水位继续下降的话，我们将要面临一场危机。”
重庆直辖市有三千多万人口，去年夏天的那场旱灾是近几十年来最严重的，成千上万的农民不得不离开家乡，另谋出路。其影响一直持续到现在。

water is something we should value

water is very importasnt ,so we take care of water resources then we take care of our life!
but a few big cities face the question about lackness of water!
thank you for sharing these ,renren2b!