Cloud-seeding will not solve China’s water shortages
So why does the government plan to do more of it?
IN EARLY MARCH a small aeroplane being used by a local weather bureau crashed in a village in the southern province of Jiangxi. All five people on board were killed and one person on the ground was injured. Footage captured on mobile phones showed thick black smoke billowing from the ruins of a house struck by the aircraft, which had been deployed to seed clouds in the hope of causing more rain.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “No silver lining”
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