Tuesday, November 29, 2005

As water was resumed in Harbin, more communities along the contaminated Songhua River live without water.

China Daily's web site reported that China cut off water supplies to more communities along Songhua River, but Beijing offers no estimates about how many people rely on the river for drinking water.

China's Central Television said at least 10,000 people downstream in Yilan County were without water service on Monday.

And in Harbin, officials warned that the water wasn't safe to drink after lying in underground pipes for five days. The government did not say when that (safe to drink) was expected to happen, according to some media reports.

I was confused. Did the governor of Heilongjiang take the first sip of the resumed running water on Sunday night as a move to show that the water was safe enough for people to drink?

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