Two men work on an ice sculpture at a park in Harbin, northeast China's
Heilongjiang Province, as the provincial capital prepares for its annual ice and
snow festival in January. The city government says its water supply for the ice
is safe after a factory blast in Jilin Province polluted the Songhua River.
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Chem plants threaten China's water supply (25/1 09:42)
More than 100 riverside chemical plants threaten the nation's drinking
water, China's environmental chief said yesterday, just a few months after an
explosion at a facility in the country's north poisoned the water source for
millions of residents.
Lessons from the disgrace of a pollution campaigner (27/12 11:17)
For Xie Zhenhua, the fall from national hero to disgraced official came
overnight. For 12 years, he had been a much-admired crusader against pollution.
But on December 2, he had to step down because of dereliction of
duty.
Dam will protect Russian city (22/12 08:02)
Workers successfully dammed a waterway in the Heilongjiang River, northeast
China, yesterday morning before a toxic slick caused by a chemical spill reached
a Russian city downstream.
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