Pollution in China’s southern region of Guangxi sparked panic buying of bottled water this week after a mining firm dumped toxic cadmium into a river, according to state media. Residents in Liuzhou city filled shopping carts with boxes of bottled water, as the government sought to reassure people that the…
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