The following are some relevant articles from China’s government-sponsored English-language newspaper, The China Daily:

1. Warplane bombs Yellow River ice jam
2. Severe drought in SW China likely to linger till May (Xinhua News Agency, reposted in English on China Daily)
3. Rain to be created in drought provinces: “In an effort to create rain, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said that weather bureaus in the affected regions are ready to “bomb clouds” with 2,116 doses of silver iodide, a compound used in cloud seeding, for which 2 million yuan ($294,000) has been allocated”
4. Joint efforts against water pollution (Taihu Lake)
5. City governments fined for Yellow River pollution: “The governments of Xi’an and Xianyang, two major cities in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, have been fined a total of 500,000 yuan ($73,530) for polluting a tributary of the Yellow River, China’s second longest waterway”

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