Kangli Li is waiting for the rain to stop. It should have stopped a month ago. She needs to rebuild the mud floor of her farm’s water cellar, damaged by consecutive droughts the years before. Without the mud, the cellar can’t store water. Without the cellar, Li can’t water her fruit tree farm in Yunnan province, in southwestern China. Li had a new well dug recently and it didn’t hit water until 140 meters (460 feet), so she extended it an additional 70 meters (229.6 feet) to prepare f...
