"The drought in this village has been felt since April, and there has been no rain until now.
The wells in this area have dried out, so residents can only get water from the river bed," Sunardi, who only goes by one name, told Reuters.
Tobacco can live, but it doesn't grow optimally, so we have to keep watering it with the river bed water too."
Sunardi's village has been digging up the river bed since June, when the water in their wells ran out.
"Even if the river here is completely dry, we'll have to find it wherever it is," he said.
Persons:
Heru, It's, Sunardi, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan, El, Tris Adi Sukoco, Budi Purwanto, Johan Purnomo, Stanley Widianto, Miral
Organizations:
REUTERS, El, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Grobogan, Central Java, Indonesia, El Nino, Karanganyar, Java, Kalimantan, Beijing, Rome