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HARBIN - Residents in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province are rushing to buy bottled water after thousands of barrels of chemicals were swept into the upper reaches of the Songhuajiang River in Jilin Province.
The incident has revived memories of the contamination of the Songhuajiang River in 2005 after an explosion at a petrochemical plant in Jilin Province left 3.8 million people in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, without drinking water for four days.
People were gathering in grocery stores and supermarkets to buy bottled water although the governments of Harbin and Jiamusi cities along the Songhuajiang River said domestic water supplies no longer came from the river.
Prices of bottled water have surged in some wholesale markets and grocery stores after t...
