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Water supply resumes in C China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-23 17:33

ZHENGZHOU - The water supply for a million city residents in Central China's Henan province resumed Tuesday morning, less than a day after a burst pipe forced a water plant to halt operations.

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A major pipe burst at 1:07 pm Monday in northern Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan. The Zhongfayuanshui Water Plant said that in wake of the burst, it had stopped the water supplies in order to repair the broken pipeline.

Water supplies resumed to all residential communities except the one with 200 households where the pipe burst after workers blocked the broken pipe near a valve, it said.

It was the second loss of tap water in Zhengzhou within a week. The first occurred on November 17 after a pipe burst near Shiyuan Water Plant, leaving 800,000 people without water in the southwest of the city.

Workers said pipe aging or increased pressure to supply water after the first suspension could have caused the burst. The pipeline was put into use in 1982.