Reuters: More than a million people in the southwestern Chinese region of Guangxi have been hit by drinking water shortages in the worst drought since 1951, the official People’s Daily said on Monday. In the last three months, Guangxi, the country’s main sugar-growing region, had had less than half the normal amount of rain, the report said, while other parts of the region had seen almost no rain at all. The government has earmarked 2.29 billion yuan ($310.8 million) to bring water to …