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The water of the Beijiang River is clear and clean, and it is rich in pincer fish and small river shrimp, which is also the favorite of folk gourmets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBecause of its proximity to the Beijiang River, Qingyuan has also become the backyard of the Pearl River Delta. However, if you want to go to Qingyuan to play Beijiang and eat river fresh these days, you will see a scene that shocks you.

Is this still the Beijiang River? The clear water of the river has disappeared, and people can walk away on the dry riverbed. The worst drought since 2004 hit Qingyuan, resulting in severe water shortages in the Qingyuan section of the Beijiang River. In another section of the river, if you want to cross the Beijiang River, you don't need a boat anymore, the cargo ships loaded with coal and stone are lined up and parked on the river, and it is a "pontoon bridge" as far as the eye can see. The rainfall from August to October in Qingyuan this year was less than half of that of the same period of the previous year, and a large number of cargo ships on the Beijiang River could not pass. The boaters had to live on the boat, just like driving on land, driving small tin boats across the river every day to buy daily necessities. However, this is also a helpless move, who wants to watch their millions of cargo ships hanging on the riverside like this.

Lao Luo, the owner of the boat: "I have been stranded here for more than a week, and the water is too shallow to walk." "Lao Luo's boat has not been stranded for the longest time, in this section of the river in Qingcheng District, Beijiang, since October 3, there have been ships running aground one after another, and the longest has been more than half a month. Ship owner Lao Wang: "My ship has been waiting here for half a month, and the loss must be big, more than 20,000 yuan." ”

The river has seen the bottom, and there is even more water shortage on the ground. In Dengjiawan Village, Lianzhou, Qingyuan, Lao Deng, who was squatting in his own field, looked at the cracked rice fields and the withered yellow rice grass, and was at a loss. Lao Deng, a villager in Dengjiawan Village on the west bank of Lianzhou: "At least the yield of millet like this will be reduced by about seven or eight percent. Front-line reporter Mao Qingze: "Like the rice field on my right, it looks good, but if you touch the ears of grain with your hands, you will find that many grains are empty, and the villagers say that the yield of this rice field will be reduced by at least 8 percent." "Lao Deng planted 5 acres of late rice this year, and he could have beaten 4,000 catties of millet this year, which is their family's ration this winter and next spring. Today, Lao Deng's 5 acres of paddy field can only harvest five or six hundred catties of millet at most this time, which is worth three or four hundred yuan. But just harvesting and drying requires a lot of effort, so it's better not to do it at all.

The village of Okiguchi next door is a little luckier. Because there is a small stream at the entrance of the village that has not dried up, with the help of the town government, they use a pump to pump water for irrigation. Lianzhou West Bank Chongkou Village Party Secretary # Lao Chen: "It has been fully watered once or twice, and if it can achieve a reduction in yield, it can ensure that four to five percent of the harvest can be guaranteed, which is useless, but this one still has forty percent and fifty percent of the grain." ”

Fire trucks carry water to quench thirst

Zeng Xianlin, deputy mayor of Qingyuan City, who is commanding the drought fight in Lianzhou, told front-line reporters that in the whole of Qingyuan, the peak area of crops affected by drought reached 430,000 mu, and the direct loss of agriculture reached 3. More than 500 million yuan. In the past month or so, there has been little rain, and now, in some mountainous areas, it is difficult to even drink water. In those places, what people are most looking forward to seeing is fire trucks.

In Chongling Village, Xi'an Township, Lianzhou, the first thing villagers do every day when they open the door is to carry buckets to the village and wait in line for fire trucks to deliver water. Villagers in Chongling Village, on the west bank of Lianzhou: "The mountains and rivers are very turbid, there is no water to drink, there is no water to take a shower, and there is no water to wash clothes." "There used to be a pond here, but now it has bottomed out, and the well I dug has dried up, so I have to rely on fire trucks to drink water. Villagers in Chongling Village, on the west bank of Lianzhou: "I can't do farm work when I wait in line for water every day. "All 12 towns in Lianzhou are now experiencing water shortages, and fire trucks are needed to deliver water to solve the problem of water for people and animals. In the whole of Qingyuan, more than 40,000 people have no drinking water.

Fly to the gorge to release the water to save the boat

The difficulties caused by the drought are all aspects, there is no water on the ground to drink, you can still use fire trucks to transport water, and the boats stranded in the Beijiang River must not be allowed to stay in the river all the time. Last night, in order to alleviate the drought and to let the stranded ships get out of danger, they flew to the Gorge Reservoir and finally released the water.

At 4 a.m. yesterday, the Feilaixia Reservoir opened its gates to release water, with a flow rate of 550 cubic meters per second and a duration of 10 hours. He Guobin, deputy director of the Qingcheng Marine Department in Qingyuan: "Beijiang is the main route for transportation in northern Guangdong, which involves the local economy. "Since August 31 this year, Feilai Gorge has released water to dredge the river four times, rescued thousands of stranded ships, and used up water equivalent to the storage capacity of 13 large and medium-sized reservoirs.

Ship owner Lao Wang: "Last month, the Waterway Bureau required us not to exceed 1 meter 2, and after this voyage, we were required not to exceed 1 meter of the waterline. The boatman is counting on the Feilai Gorge to release water to dredge the channel, but the Feilai Gorge reservoir area is also "shy in the pocket", this time the water is released to dredge the channel, using up 20 million cubic meters of storage capacity, to save back the water, at least 10 days of effort.

Moderator's comments: Why do you say that the water in the Feilai Gorge Reservoir is bleeding? It makes sense, because his most important task now is to ensure the drinking water of 500,000 people in Qingyuan, and he also wants to ensure that Guangzhou, Foshan and even Hong Kong and Macao can safely survive the difficult period of water use this winter and next spring, I am not a meteorological expert, I don't know whether this predicament will continue now, but for our people, what can be done at present is to protect the environment and save water, because the current situation of water shortage in Guangdong is indeed very serious!

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