900 pigs dumped in water source: Xinhua

900 dead pigs were found in the main river that provides drinking water for Shanghai. The Official Xinhua News Agency reports the carcasses were found and retrieved at Songjiang in the upper reaches of the Huangpu River, which runs through the city’s financial center. The government says water quality hasn’t been affected so far. The dumping is the latest environmental scare in China, which has grappled with lead poisoning from battery makers, fluoride leaks from solar panel plants and acid spills from mines. In January, a cadmium spill in a tributary of the Pearl River triggered panic buying of bottled water, while a 2010 waste leak into a river in southern Fujian province poisoned almost 2,000 tons of fish.

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