Article: Russian City Cuts Water Supplies to 10,000

YURAS KARMANAU, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
12-21-2005
Dateline: KHABAROVSK, Russia
Authorities in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk cut off water supplies to 10,000 people Wednesday as a toxic slick from China floated downriver toward the city.

Regional officials said that tests conducted in the Amur River, which flows past the city of 580,000 and provides it with all its water supplies, so far had not detected chemicals above permissible levels.

But residents of three southern districts woke up to find notices posted outside their apartment blocks with a list of hazardous chemicals that could be in the water supply and their effects. The notice warned them not to try to ...

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