A boys cools off running through a water fountain in the plaza of a shopping mall in Beijing on July 1, 2009. A heat wave and prolonged drought continue to plague northern China, according to state media, as temperatures in beijing have hovered around 35 degrees for almost ten days with no sign of a temperature drop. With the hottest June in almost four decades, Beijing has also reported an all-time high in water usage of 2.78 million cubic metres daily. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

A boys cools off running through a water fountain in the plaza of a shopping mall in Beijing on July 1, 2009. A heat wave and prolonged drought continue to plague northern China, according to state media, as temperatures in beijing have hovered around 35 degrees for almost ten days with no sign of a temperature drop. With the hottest June in almost four decades, Beijing has also reported an all-time high in water usage of 2.78 million cubic metres daily.

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