More than 230,000 residents the Chinese province of Jiangxi in the southeast of the country lack access to drinking water due to prolonged drought, said on Tuesday a news portal Sina.

Drought is established in the region in October, which led to drying up of a large number of ponds and artificial reservoirs. The amount of precipitation in October and November was 60% less than the same month last year. According to the forecast meteorologists in December, the situation only worse.