Floods hit east China by Magdalena Rosova

One of the worst flooding in decades hit China. More floods are expected to come on the Yangtze river. More than thousand people have already died in the floods or are missing. The Red Cross said that food supplies for the next six months were disrupted. Millions of people are affected and more than 300,000 were forced to move out from the affected are. Qing Hui Gu, the Red Cross's regional disaster management coordinator for east Asia, said that they were trying to provide enough tents and food supplies for people who were staying in temporary shelters. At this time of year floods often happen in the are, but this year floods are much more stronger. The heavy rain poured t! he river out and it will probably not get to normal until September. Qing is afraid that people would not have enough food as millions of hectares of farmland had been destroyed. The Chinese government is trying to support relief activities and support affected families with financial help. Because of the lost harvest there will be a huge need for support. The Three Gorges reservoir hit the record mark or 159 meters, which is just 16 meters below its maximum capacity. The authorities in the region now have to work on flood prevention. More than ten rivers were affected by weeks of heavy rains. Several Chinese rivers have exceeded their danger marks. The weeks long rains caused that the output of the dam's spill gates has risen from 25,000 cubic metres per second to 40,000 cubic metres.

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