The local government of Liuzhou, a city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, announced on February 6 a plan to find an alternative source of drinking water after a toxic cadmium spill contaminated a local river in January.
Cadmium pollution was first detected in the Longjiang River on January 15 in Hechi, and it then spread to the downstream Liujiang River, threatening water supplies in Liuzhou, a city with 1.5 million permanent residents.
The city will also build a reservoir with a storage capacity of 100 million cubic meters on the nearby Guchang River.
The reservoir is designed to help meet the city's water needs for two months in the summer and three months in the winter. |