Chinese rush for bottled drinks after benzene pollutes tapwater

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Chinese rush for bottled drinks after benzene pollutes tapwater

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/china-begins-soil-pollution-clean-amid-doubt-over-080059645.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/fji6yQnd0T.agLUQ7Xd7VA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-11T093453Z_1_CBREA3A0QMB00_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-POLLUTION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="People line up to buy cartons of bottled water at a supermarket after reports on heavy levels of benzene in local tap water, in Lanzhou" align="left" title="People line up to buy cartons of bottled water at a supermarket after reports on heavy levels of benzene in local tap water, in Lanzhou" border="0" /></a>BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Residents in the Chinese city of Lanzhou rushed to buy bottled drinks on Friday after authorities said benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, had been found in tapwater at 20 times above national safety levels. The water supply was turned off in one district, and officials warned citizens not to drink tapwater for the next 24 hours. &quot;Lanzhou has shut down the contaminated water supply pipe and deployed activated carbon to absorb the benzene,&quot; local authorities said in a statement. The water supply company, Lanzhou Veolia Water Co, is majority-owned by the city government, with Veolia China, a unit of French firm Veolia Environnement, holding a 45-percent stake.</p><br clear="all"/>

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