"The government has started an emergency response plan," Xinhua said, citing a brief government microblog post. State broadcaster CCTV said 680,000 people had been affected by the shut-off. It quoted other domestic media as saying supplies would resume later on Friday.
Concern over water quality in Jingjiang comes soon after the cancer-inducing chemical benzene was found to be 20 times above national safety levels in the western city of Lanzhou in April. That prompted a rush on bottled water in the heavily industrialized city of 3.6 million people in Gansu province, one of China's most polluted cities....
The Peaceful and Fluent Bridge in Jingjiang, shot by BenBen, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic license
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