A?boat is seen stranding on the dried up riverbed of Hanjiang River in Yunxian County, Hubei Province, May 15, 2011. 2011年5月15日,一只船在湖北省鄖縣干涸的漢江上擱淺。

久旱造成中國(guó)中部省份水庫(kù)干涸

據(jù)新華社報(bào)道，湖北水利管理部門(mén)周一表示，持續(xù)5個(gè)月的旱情已致使1392個(gè)水庫(kù)失去作用，水位降到死水位以下。

湖北省水利廳的高級(jí)官員袁俊光表示，截止周日，4個(gè)中型水庫(kù)和1388個(gè)小型水庫(kù)的水位降到正常放水水平以下。他說(shuō)，即使是南水北調(diào)工程的重要組成部分—丹江口水庫(kù)的水位周六也降到較死水位低4.23米的水平。

旱情已致使31.5萬(wàn)人和9.73萬(wàn)頭牲畜缺少飲用水，約83萬(wàn)公頃農(nóng)田受影響。氣象學(xué)家周月華表示，拉尼娜是造成旱情的原因。但長(zhǎng)江水利委員會(huì)官員黃奇說(shuō)，旱情并不是缺水造成的，而是水資源分布不均。他呼吁建立全國(guó)性的統(tǒng)一蓄水系統(tǒng)。

國(guó)家電網(wǎng)表示，與此同時(shí)，湖南、湖北、河南、江西、山西等中國(guó)中部省份的供電系統(tǒng)也面臨著巨大的壓力。

新華社報(bào)道說(shuō)，造成今年嚴(yán)重的電力短缺的另一個(gè)原因是，中國(guó)正在通過(guò)鼓勵(lì)投資新能源在內(nèi)的新興行業(yè)，以推進(jìn)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展模式。

Reservoirs run dry in provinces in central China

The Hubei water authority said Monday that a five-month drought has left 1,392 reservoirs useless, with water below the level at which it is considered dead, Xinhua News Agency reports.

As of Sunday, water in four medium-sized and 1,388 small-sized reservoirs had dropped below the permissible discharge level, Yuan Junguang, a senior official at the Hubei Provincial Water Resources Department said. Even the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a key component of the south-to-north water diversion project, saw its water levels drop drastically to 4.23 meters below its dead water level on Saturday, he said.

The drought has left about 315,000 people and 97,300 livestock short of drinking water, and has affected about 830,000 ha of farmland. Meteorologist Zhou Yuehua said La Nina was to blame for the drought. But Huang Qi, an official of the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee, said the cause was not a water shortage but uneven distribution of water resources. He called for the establishment of a nationwide water conservancy system.

Meanwhile, power supply systems in the central Chinese provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Jiangxi and Shanxi are also facing significant pressure, the State Grid said.

Another cause of this year's severe power shortage is China's push to transform its economic development pattern by encouraging investment in emerging industries, such as new energy, Xinhua News Agency said.

(China.org.cn May 17, 2011)