A farmer collects water with the help of donkeys at a partially dried-up pond in Huan County, southwest China's Gansu Province May 22. The Huan County suffered drought since September 2004 and there has been no effective rainfall for the past 32 months.
A farmer shows the dried wheat in Huan County.
A farmer collects rainfall water converged on a road.
(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2007)