A ruptured oil pipeline operated by China National Petroleum Corporation has tainted the water supply of 2.4 million people in northwestern China, state-run newswire Xinhua reported last Friday.
Leaked crude oil contaminated water flowing into a municipal water treatment plant serving the city of Lanzhou, capital of western Gansu province. City authorities instructed residents not to use water from faucets over the weekend, setting off a panicked scramble to buy bottled water.
Lanzhou’s environmental protection chief, Yan Zijiang, told state media that local authorities had detected dangerously elevated levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, in the city’s tap water. On Friday, samples of Lanzhou’s water contained 200 micrograms of benzene per liter—20 times the national safety limit of 10 micrograms per liter.
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