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China's Yangtze river shrinks as heatwave, drought threaten crops - Reuters.com

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Regions that rely on the Yangtze, China’s longest river, are having to deploy pumps and cloud-seeding rockets as a long drought depletes water levels and threatens crops, and a heatwave is set to last another two weeks.

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