'World’s worst' heatwave in China triggers energy, food and water crises
Inside China
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China's Greatest Economic Powerhouse
Temperatures have been over forty degrees selsius for a month, and it hasn't rained once. 80 % of sitan's electricity comes from the huge number of dams and hydro power in the region. But over the last two months, more than forty rivers that flow into the yanze river have run dry. This has effected more than 80 hydro power stations across siacan.
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