Yunnan province has recently been experiencing the one-two punch of drought and rapid development, forcing the city management department to take some drastic action. If you open our apartment faucet between 1:00PM and 4:00PM (and at other random times) each day, this is what you get:
Nothing (but dry skin). And we consider ourselves to be fortunate, because others we know only have water 4 hours per day.
Although the humans are finding their water supplies limited, the plants and trees are all doing quite well:
The watering trucks are still out in full force:
There are also trucks that regularly water the roads to control the construction dust:
Our city recently announced a beautification project for “Beijing Road” which will include 30,000 new trees like these:
Road improvement projects usually seem to include a large number of plants – consider these planters along an elevated highway:
While it’s not a big deal to water a few planters, I estimate that there must be at least 10,000 of them on our second ring road alone:
We may not be able to wash our hands in the afternoon, but at least we’ll still have lush vegetation!
aww, well maybe the nice vegetation will help with some air quality problems!
What better time for a beautification project, which will require millions of gallons of irrigation water, than during one of the worst droughts in history…
I wonder which local official owns the nursery…