More than million people can suffer from Songhua River pollution

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According to the Russian Emergency Ministry, the benzene spot that entered a canal of the Amur River as a result of an accident at the Chinese chemical plant, would reach the Russian border by December 6-7. Drinking water resources have been increased in the cities of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-na-Amure, experts expect that water supplies from the river would be cut down for several days.

However, according to a forecast by the Natural Resources Ministry, the polluted water would enter the Russian cities in the next two or three days. The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources has already started calculating the damage to the Amur River by the pollution, deputy head of the service Oleg Mitvol said on air of a Khabarovsk TV-channel. He noted the damaged could be multiple. It goes not only about the fish, but about the problems in supplying drinking water to residents of Khabarovsk and bringing common inconveniences to them, reports “Ekho Moskvy”. The zone of the potential pollution includes 70 built-up areas with the population of over one million people.