Alarm over tailings' effects on rivers
By Jiang Xueqing and Li Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2011-07-29 07:48
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Residents of Mianyang, Sichuan province, line up to get spring water on Thursday. It took two hours for the dripping spring water to fill each bucket. Yang Weihua / for China Daily |
MIANYANG, Sichuan - The drinking water crisis in Mianyang, in Southwest China's Sichuan province, caused by the pollution of the Fujiang River by a manganese plant, should be seen as a warning about the lax management of more than 10,000 toxic mine tailings in the country, environmentalists said.
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