{"id":20681,"date":"2008-06-10T01:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/06\/china-chemical-spill-threatens-water-of-200000\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T16:10:56","slug":"china-chemical-spill-threatens-water-of-200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/06\/china-chemical-spill-threatens-water-of-200000\/","title":{"rendered":"China Chemical Spill Threatens Water of 200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSPEK29466920080610\">Reuters<\/a> reports on a chemical spill in Yunnan province:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A truck has overturned and spilt a powerful chemical into a river in southwestern China, threatening the drinking water of more than 200,000 people, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was carrying 33.6 metric tons of crude phenol, which in its diluted form can be used as a disinfectant or antiseptic, when it overturned on Saturday near the upper reaches of the Baise dam in Yunnan province, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>By Monday, the chemicals in the Zhesang river had reached the dam area, and were just 15 kilometers upstream from where water is piped off to supply 200,000 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports on a chemical spill in Yunnan province: A truck has overturned and spilt a powerful chemical into a river in southwestern China, threatening the drinking water of more than 200,000 people, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday. 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