Torrential rain has wrought havoc across large parts of China this summer, most recently in the southwest and the east, killing more than 500 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
An elderly woman feeds her ducks on a boat, which is her temporary home after the village was flooded, in Fengyang County, east China's Anhui province July 21, 2007.
... In southwestern Chongqing, residents were coping with the aftermath of the worst rainstorm in more than a century. ... Chongqing and Sichuan were suffering their worst drought in over 100 years this time last year ...
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