Lanzhou water benzene content exceed the standard: the public water grab the local water supply

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In new network Lanzhou on 11 April, (reporter Yan Yaqi) 11 days, Lanzhou Veolia Water Group Company factory benzene content of water and gravity flow channel in water samples

Serious exceed the standard. The reporter visited the Lanzhou each big supermarket found, people rush to panic buying of water. At the same time, Xigu District of Lanzhou city has water.

Show according to the detection of Veolia Water Group Company Ltd., April 10th 17 water benzene content is 118 mg / L, 22 flow channel

(tap a factory and two branch of the middle section) benzene content of 170 micrograms per liter, 11 days of before dawn 2 when the detection value of 200 g / L, were

Far beyond the national limit of 10 micrograms per liter.

Department of chemistry, Lanzhou University Professor Division since the method is accepting a reporter to interview, benzene is a kind of organic compounds, on the human body has the nerve poison

Sex, can be carcinogenic, the quantity is little words is a chronic poison, if a large number of intake can cause acute poisoning.

A supermarket in Lanzhou, many people come to panic buying mineral water. A lot of the supermarket shelves sold out.

Lanzhou Veolia Water group analysis, may be the chemical plant sewage flow channel, instead of the Yellow River pollution. According to the public

Company a responsible person introduced, Water Service Company has begun an emergency deployment of safe water, put on the residential area within the city.

At present, the Lanzhou City Environmental Protection Bureau has been involved in the investigation. After the incident, Lanzhou municipal Party committee, City Hall has been assigned to health, environmental protection and other related departments

The night of collecting water samples for further testing.

Author: Yan Qi

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