China's Poyang Lake shrinking amid heatwave, drought
STORY: China's largest freshwater lake
has shrunk to a fifth of its size
Location: Jiangxi Province, China
due to a record heatwave and drought
Poyang Lake is usually full of
water this time of year
before receding dramatically
during the dry autumn and winter
(Zhang Daxian, Resident)
"Last year there was water in the lake. This year, I don't know what happened, it is so dry. It's been dry for a month and a half, almost two months. Historically the water was supposed to recede in the middle of September, but this year, it is weird, it dried up in the middle of July. I haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time, at least not for a decade or two."
