China's water migrants (25 images)
In the mountainous Hui Muslim Autonomous province of Ningxia, the population relies exclusively on rainfall for their water supply, but the region has been afflicted by two years of drought. Bypassed by China's rapid modernization the people live in an area the UN described as "unfit for human habitation". Their lives are based around agriculture and their cave dwellings - hewn from the surrounding mountains, furnished with 19th century stoves, and earthen beds. Yaoshan is one of...
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