Post by L Roebuck on Jul 4, 2007 7:27:30 GMT -5
Pollution leaves 200,000 without water
SHANGHAI, China - Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
Taps ran dry from Monday to Wednesday in Shuyang, a city in Jiangsu province where a massive outbreak of blue-green algae in 2005 forced the shut-off of water supplies to about 5 million people in another city, Wuxi, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The residential water supply from the Xinyi River had an unusual smell and was found to have levels of ammonia nitrogen far above national standards, the China Business News paper reported.
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SHANGHAI, China - Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
Taps ran dry from Monday to Wednesday in Shuyang, a city in Jiangsu province where a massive outbreak of blue-green algae in 2005 forced the shut-off of water supplies to about 5 million people in another city, Wuxi, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The residential water supply from the Xinyi River had an unusual smell and was found to have levels of ammonia nitrogen far above national standards, the China Business News paper reported.
Yahoo! News