Due to drought many areas of Northern China are desperately short of water. This has lead the government to start a cloud seeding program to try and m

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Due to drought many areas of Northern China are desperately short of water. This has lead the government to start a cloud seeding program to try and make it rain. Shells containing silver halide crystals are fired into cloud. These microscopic particles act as nuclei around which rain drops can form. This cloud seeding canon is on the outskirts of Harbin city in Heilongjiang province, Northern China.

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