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December 22, 2005
Yet another toxic spill in China threatens the water supply
In Guangzhou, China's southern business capital, the water supply Thursday was threatened by the second environmental disaster in China in a month.
On Thursday a toxic spill into the Bei River from a smelter in Shaoguan, laden with very high levels of the heavy metal cadmium, flowed toward Guangzhou. A smaller city nearby stopped drawing drinking water from the contaminated river immediately.
A Guangzhou water department spokeswoman, who would only give her surname, Zheng, said that only one of the city's seven water plants was close enough to the river to be affected, as reported by the Assocated Press, and published in The New York Times.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at December 22, 2005 10:04 PM
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