By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Image source, Getty Images A month-long heatwave and record low rains have resulted in an extraordinary dryspell along the Yangtze, China’s longest river. Lakes and tributaries have declined as a outcome of the dryspell, exposing riverbeds and even a 600-year-old Buddhist stone sculpting and rocks listedbelow the popular Guanyin Pavilion, in Wuhan, Hubei province. Low river levels haveactually minimized the capability of hydro-electric power stations in the location to create energy. Emergency steps enforced to conserve electricalenergy consistof factories closing, stores lowering opening hours and workplace structures changing off air conditioning – all in action to the double-whammy of high need for electricalenergy and low production. In huge cities sited along the river, Shanghai is changing off its popular waterside lights and the city of Luzhou is turning off street lights at night, in an effort to eas
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