Chinese City Suspends Water Supply
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Contamination is blamed on chemical plant accident upstream by Jean-François Tremblay C&EN
The city of Harbin in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province suspended its water supply on Nov. 23 until further notice.
The city draws its water from the Songhua River. In a terse statement, the municipal government attributed the suspension to contamination of the Songhua by an accident earlier this month at a China National Petroleum Corp. facility in Jilin, upstream from Harbin (C&EN, Nov. 21, page 29).
