[china] one truck cuts 28 000 people’s water

Something like this would make front page news anywhere else in the world. As it happened in China, it barely rated a mention. An oil truck overturned on Thursday October 26, dumping 33 tons of wash oil into a river in north China's Shanxi Province, and contaminating an estimated two million cubic meters of water, forcing water supplies to nearly 28,000 people to be cut. Investigations show that the overloaded truck, which had a capacity of only 31.5 tons, overturned due to a brake failure. Meanwhile, an oil spill in the Songhua Riverhas been brought under control and will not threaten drinking water in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, state authorities said Saturday. Just thought you might like to know. Stop yawning.