Chinese drillers work 15-hour days building wells in drought-hit Jiangxi

Head of a drilling crew Gao Pucha operates a machine as his drill hits water as the region experiences a drought outside Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, China, August 27, 2022. - Reuters

JIUJIANG, China, Aug 28 (Reuters): Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province have told Reuters.

"These villages, all of them, are particularly dry," said Gao Pucha, 42, who led one drilling team in Dashan village in Jiujiang.