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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Tokyo Runs Out Of Bottled Water | zero hedge

Tokyo Runs Out Of Bottled Water | zero hedge: "While the broader population continues to read stories of a stoic Tokyo population, casually taking each day of deteriorating news from Fukushima in stride, the reality is far from what is being represented. The latest escalation: Tokyo is running out of bottle water, now that the government disclosed (with a two week delay), that drinking water is irradiated. From Reuters: 'Many shops in Japan's capital ran out of bottled water on Thursday after a warning of radiation danger for babies from a damaged nuclear plant where engineers are battling the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.' And if the government appears to be on the verge of losing control (and no city of 13 million can operate without water, no matter how bullish Douche Bank's chief strategist sounds on CNBC) after disclosing this one factoid, what happens when the true extent of the secondary effects from Fukushima are made public: 'The government urged residents not to panic and hoard bottled water -- but many shops quickly sold out.'If this is long term, I think we have a lot to worry about,' said Riku Kato, father of a one-year-old baby."

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