Rivers of blood: the dead pigs rotting in China’s water supply

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Huangpu river, Shanghai. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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Standing on the quay, Mrs Wu jokes that there are more pigs than fish in Jiapingtang river. But she isn’t smiling. The 48-year-old fisherwoman, who lives in Xinfeng, a sleepy country village, recalls splashing about in the river as a child on sticky summer days. Today it is inky black, covered in a slick of lime green algae, and it smells like a blocked drain…

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