China raises flood alert to second highest level

Record ID: 1958125

  • Title: China raises flood alert to second highest level
  • Date: 12th July 2020
  • Summary: YUGAN, JIANGXI PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 12, 2020) (CCTV - NO USE CHINA) AERIAL SHOT OF SOLDIERS REINFORCING DYKE VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS FILLING BAGS WITH SOIL AND REINFORCING DYKE AERIAL SHOT OF SOLDIERS REINFORCING DYKE/POYANG LAKE PEOPLE ON DYKE/FLAG OF LOCAL COMMUNITY WATER IN LAKE SHANGRAO, JIANGXI PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 11, 2020) (CCTV - NO USE CHINA) FIREFIGHTERS ROWING RAF
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  • Keywords: China Poyang lake Yangtze river floods rainfall south
  • Location: YUGAN, JIANGXI PROVINCE/SHANGRAO, JIANGXI PROVINCE/LIUZHOU, GUANGXI PROVINCE/YANGXIN, JINGMEN, WUHAN, HUBEI PROVINCE/ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA
  • City: YUGAN, JIANGXI PROVINCE/SHANGRAO, JIANGXI PROVINCE/LIUZHOU, GUANGXI PROVINCE/YANGXIN, JINGMEN, WUHAN, HUBEI PROVINCE/ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,China (PRC),Disaster/Accidents,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA001CMI5HZB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING
    China on Sunday (July 12) raised its flood response alert to the second highest grade as downpours continued to batter regions along the Yangtze River, with the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Jiangxi among the worst hit, state media reported.
    Regional flooding in the Poyang county of Jiangxi has made water levels of China's Lake Poyang, its biggest freshwater lake, surge to above 22.52 meters, a historical high and well above the alert level of 19.50 metres.
    By Saturday (July 11) evening, provincial military authorities had dispatched thousands of soldiers to help bolster nearly 9 km (6 miles) of the lake's banks to prevent them from bursting, state television CCTV said.
    China has a four-tier flood control emergency response system, with level one representing the most severe.
    Citing data from the Ministry of Water Resources, 212 rivers have since early July exceeded alerting levels including 19 of them rising to historical highs.
    China has blamed extreme weather conditions as a result of climate change for the torrential rain that has since June hit large swathes of the country and caused over 60 billion yuan ($8.57 billion) of economic losses.
    (Production: Phyllis Xu)
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