A hand reaches into the crack of a farmland in Shangzhai Village of Xiuwen County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 31, 2013. Lingering droughts in Guizhou have affected more than 12 million people. Over 2 million people lack adequate supplies of drinking water, and a total of 847,300 hectares of farmland is damaged by the drought. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)