Introduction

For the past two months, south western china has been baking in temperatures over a hundred degrees fahrenheit. The 80 million people living in the province of sitwan have been hit the hardest. But effects of these soring temperatures in si tan are going to be felt much further away. It's going to affect china's food supply, its manufacturing base and fundamentally, its approach to energy and water. And you'll hear from shanghai based sustainability expert richard bruwbaker on the long term effects of this heat wave on china's economy or relationship with water.