Drillers work 15-hour days to build wells

Scorching heat: Cracks running through the partially dried-up riverbed of the Gan River, a tributary to Poyang Lake during a regional drought in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. — Reuters

TEAMS of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of the country, said farmers in Jiujiang city in the country’s central Jiangxi province.

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