The country is exploring cloud seeding, GM crops, and a multibillion-dollar water-transfer system to address its worst water shortages on record.
plateau overlooking a valley in central China, two officials stood by as a small, thin rocket blasted off from the rear of a pickup truck. The rocket, carrying a payload of silver iodide rods intended to initiate rainfall, was headed for the clouds above Zigui county in Hubei province. It was just another round of artillery fire in China’s war against its current drought—the worst on record in the country.
to escape temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above. Evaporating rivers have also caused a drop in hydropower generation at dams, leading to electricity shortages. “If you go and seed a cloud and then you observe how much rain or snow you get, you don’t know how much you would have gotten if you hadn’t seeded it,” says Adele Igel, head of the cloud physics group at the University of California, Davis, noting how difficult it is for scientists to know if cloud seeding actually works.could increase precipitation by up to 20 percent
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