Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze river in the southwestern region of Chongqing clambered along the dry riverbed on Thursday amid an unprecedented drought across the region that could last another month.
China faces record-breaking heatwaves and is battling a power outage in the Yangtze river area. Extreme temperatures have disrupted crop growth and threatened.
The Ministry of Water Resources has promised to keep releasing water from the main reservoirs along the Yangtze River to help relieve the severe drought affecting Asia's longest watercourse, as the lingering heat wave and low levels of precipitation have disrupted water supplies and irrigation across the region.