Chemical dump affects water supply of 30,000 in Shanghai
By Wang Zhenghua in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-12 08:14
Residents wait in line for drinking water in Songjiang district, Shanghai, on Thursday. Water pollution, caused by an illegal waste discharge, affected the water supply for 30,000 residents in Jinshan and Songjiang districts. Liu Xin / for China Daily |
Authorities in Shanghai have been offering emergency water supplies to residents of a southwestern suburb after a discharge of chemical waste into a river required the water to be cut off to about 30,000 people.
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