City’s Water Plant Shuts in Poison Scare

ANOTHER city in north east China has shut down a water plant on a poisoned river fearing contamination from approaching toxic chemicals.

The shutdown in Jiamusi, with 480,000 people, came as China’s chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for the chemical spill into the Songhua River. The disaster has disrupted water supplies to millions of people in China and strained relations with Russia, where the spill is expected to reach border city Khabarovsk soon