City Reassured

SHANGHAI'S drinking water supply should not be affected by the pollution in the Xin'an River in the east Zhejiang Province, officials said yesterday after residents expressed fears.
Chen Guoguang, senior engineer of Shanghai's water supply monitoring center, said the city's water was mainly taken at the mouth of the Yangtze River and part of the Huangpu River, far from the Xin'an River where the carbolic acid leak occurred.

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