Many shops in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, ran out of bottled water after hired by thecommunity. They were worried after news emerged about the radiation from a nuclear power plant (NPP) that is damaged which is about 250 km, has been polluting the tap water network, so it is not safe for small children.
Based on the Associated Press, the Tokyo government today gave ration bottled waterin some locations, where every family is entitled to three bottles. Tokyo is expected tohave 80,000 families who have children between 12 months and under.
Although levels of contamination in the tap water system today has returned to safe levels, people seem willing to take risks, because the levels of tap water in two prefaktur(provinces) that are neighbors, ie, Chiba and Saitama, instead showing dangerouslevels, which can cause cancer.
Most of the stores claimed that they had run out of bottled drinking water supplies. Whileeach family has been rationed, but still only supply bottled water runs out.
Meanwhile, the team of six technicians struggling to fix a damaged nuclear reactor inFukushima, which is close to the center of an earthquake measuring 9 on the RichterScale and the tsunami that struck the northeastern region of Japan on 11 March.
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