| The Hubei water authority said Monday that a five-month drought has left 1,392 reservoirs useless, with water below the level at which it is considered dead, Xinhua reports. |
據新華社報道，湖北水利管理部門周一表示，持續5個月的旱情已致使1392個水庫失去作用，水位降到死水位以下。? |
| As of Sunday, water in four medium-sized and 1,388 small-sized reservoirs had dropped below the permissible discharge level, Yuan Junguang, a senior official at the Hubei Provincial Water Resources Department said. |
湖北省水利廳的高級官員袁俊光表示，截止周日，4個中型水庫和1388個小型水庫的水位降到正常放水水平以下。 |
| Even the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a key component of the south-to-north water diversion project, saw its water levels drop drastically to 4.23 meters below its dead water level on Saturday, he said. |
他說，即使是丹江口水庫——南水北調工程的重要組成部分，其水位周六也降到較死水位低4.23米的水平。 |
| The drought has left about 315,000 people and 97,300 livestock short of drinking water, and has affected about 830,000 ha of farmland. |
旱情已致使31.5萬人和9.73萬頭牲畜缺少飲用水，約83萬公頃農田受影響。 |
| Meteorologist Zhou Yuehua said La Nina was to blame for the drought. |
氣象學家周月華表示，拉尼娜是造成旱情的原因。 |
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But Huang Qi, an official of the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee, said the cause was not a water shortage but uneven distribution of water resources. He called for the establishment of a nationwide water conservancy system.
(China.org.cn May 18, 2011) |
但長江水利委員會官員黃奇說，旱情并不是缺水造成的，而是水資源分布不均。他呼吁建立全國性的統一蓄水系統。 |
