Serving rice in a local restaurant in Kunming, China. Source - Steve Evans, CC SA 3.0. China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain. The record-setting drought in southwest China has hit Sichuan Province particularly hard because it gets 80 percent of its power from hydroelectric dams. The provincial government says reservoirs are at half of the normal water levels. China is experiencing the hottest, driest summer since the government began recording rainfall and temperature 61 years ago. Last week, according to Bloomberg , factories in Sichuan province were...