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July 05, 2007
This time Pollution leaves 200,000 without water in China
Once again, the official Xinhua News Agency has had to report a pollution nightmare in China. This time it was that for 40 hours, water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants.
Shuyang, a city in Jiangsu province was where the taps ran dry. While the specific source of the pollution was not known, the China Business Newspaper cited the head of Shuyang's environmental protection bureau, Hu Daolang, as blaming chemical plants upstream on the Xinyi River.
Jiangsu province is a center of the Chinese chemical industry, and a massive runoff of toxic effluent has been blamed for poisoning the province's extensive grid of rivers, canals and lakes, as reported by the Associated Press, and published by the Chico Enterprise Record.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 5, 2007 10:53 PM
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