2 million of us are still without potable water. No date when the problem will

[virgogal]

end.

Of course I had a dishwasher full of dirty dishes which I will hand wash (no problem there),but boiling water is the only choice.

There is no bottled water to be had.

In the big picture of things,this is no big deal,but it is inconvenient to say the least.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/?p1=GN_TodaysGlobe

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. What's the problem in the Bay State? n/m

[virgogal]

2. Link added to OP. eom

[IntravenousDemilo]

20. Thanks. Oh, my, that really sucks. It must be very inconvenient for you.

I trust people are remaining civil.

[CountAllVotes]

3. if you read the story ...

>> Nearly 2 million residents of Greater Boston lost their supply of clean drinking water when a huge pipe abruptly burst yesterday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency and to impose a sweeping order for homeowners and businesses to boil the untreated water now flowing from their taps.

[Arkana]

4. I think the Boston water advisory just said you couldn't drink it.

Washing dishes and bathing in it wasn't a problem.

[virgogal]

9. We are getting mixed messages. They ran a scroll about 15

minutes ago saying no dishwashing.

I'll do a Scarlett O'Hara and worry about it tomorrow.

[Arkana]

10. Well, I dunno.

I live in the part of MA you city slickers steal your water from.

[virgogal]

11. And a beautiful part of MA it is-----been there many times.

[pipi_k]

22. And I live in the part

that sells the bottled water that comes oozing out of the ground.

:7

[lib2DaBone]

5. The water systems in the New England states are getting very old..

Our electric grid is rickety.. (that is why we can't support electric vehicles) and our bridges were given a grade of D-minus by engineers.

Yet our government chose to build up the surge in Afghanistan and give Billions in new contracts to BlackWater.

Something doesn't make sense...

[virgogal]

7. This was a new section.

[Inspired]

6. The city of Des Moines went without potable water for almost 2 weeks in 1993.

At that time it was the largest city to ever not have potable water. Water to boil had to be trucked in. The national guard set up water 'bladders' on city streets.

It was awful and really made me appreciate things I usually only took for granted.

[virgogal]

8. Yikes----hope 2 weeks isn't in store for us.

[Mopar151]

24. The leak is being fixed

They're pouring concrete around it, like Chernobyl. Now it's a matter of how long until the system cleans out.

[HereSince1628]

14. Remember the 2 weeks of contaiminated water in Milwaukee in 93?

403,000 cases of illness...when lots of people depend on one supply, lots of people get impacted. Too Big To Fail doesn't apply to American infrastructure, because it doesn't profit business enough...:crazy:

The 1993 Milwaukee Cryptosporidium outbreak was a significant distribution of the Cryptosporidium protozoan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the largest waterborne disease outbreak in documented United States history. The Howard Avenue Water Purification Plant (see Town of Lake water tower) was contaminated, and treated water showed turbidity levels well above normal. It was one of two water treatment plants for Milwaukee. The root cause of epidemic was never officially identified; initially it was determined to be caused by the cattle genotype versus human genotype of the parasite as originally suggested.<1> MacKenzie et al. showed that this outbreak was caused by cryptosporidium oocysts that passed through the filtration system of one of the city's water-treatment plant.

This abnormal condition at the plant lasted from March 23 through April 8, after which, the plant was shut down. Over the span of approximately two weeks, 403,000<2> of an estimated 1.61 million residents in the Milwaukee area (of which 880,000 were served by the malfunctioning treatment plant) became ill with the stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea and dehydration caused by the pathogen. Over 54<2> deaths were attributed to this outbreak, mostly among the elderly and immunocompromised people, such as AIDS patients.

[virgogal]

19. OMG,that's awful. 400,000 sick people and 50 or so deaths.

Unbelievable.

[CTyankee]

15. When does this happen in western Europe? And yet the tea baggers yell

about how horrible "socialism" is!

Creeps.

[jmm]

12. Some stores are looking better than they did this morning.

When I went shopping this morning I could find some small bottles but not much. I went to the Stop & Shop in Somerville about half an hour ago and they were putting water on the shelves. I saw a bunch of people buying cases of Dasani but I just grabbed a couple gallons of the store brand spring water.

[Ohio Joe]

13. I'm in Natick and we are ok but I feel for you

It is all over the TV, running at the bottom on all channels. Be safe!

[CTyankee]

16. I have a daughter in Sherborn. She does have well water and no problems.

Take care...

[virgogal]

18. Thanks. It's times like this I wish for well water.

[CTyankee]

21. She was unhappy with the fact that she can't install a garbage disposal in her house.

But this advantage far outweighs that inconvenience...

[virgogal]

17. Thanks. It's a pain in the butt.

[classysassy]

23. Maybe we can keep some of that foreign aide money

here at home and take care of the needy.Ask Israel if we can keep the annual three billion we send them every year.

[Justice]

25. boil water order lifted