China is seeding clouds to replenish its shrinking Yangtze River

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By Wayne Chang, Simone McCarthy and Shawn Deng, CNN and Reuter

Updated 10:38 AM ET, Wed August 17, 2022

 

A cracked riverbed in a section of Yangtze River in Yunyang, Chongqing, on August 16, 2022.

Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record.

Several regions on the Yangtze have launched weather modification programs, but with cloud cover too thin, operations in some drought-ravaged parts of the river's basin have remained on standby.

 

The Ministry of Water Resources said in a notice on Wednesday that drought throughout the Yangtze river basin was "adversely affecting drinking water security of rural people and livestock, and the growth of crops."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/asia/china-heat-drought-climate-yangtze-intl/index.html