Chinese workers dig deep to keep crops watered after drought hits largest lake

Water flows through channels in the lake bed of Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake (Xinhua via AP)

With China’s biggest freshwater lake reaching historic low levels thanks to drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to irrigate crops.

The dramatic decline of water coverage in Poyang Lake in the central province of Jiangxi would
have otherwise cut off irrigation channels to neighbouring farmlands in one of China’s key rice-growing regions.