East N.O. water now safe to drink

The water is safe to drink in eastern New Orleans, according to the Sewerage and Water Board.

According to the board, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals on Thursday lifted the boil-water advisory for all of eastern New Orleans, including Venetian Isles, but not including the lower Ninth Ward or ZIP Code 70117 east of the Industrial Canal. The tap water is now safe for drinking, cooking and bathing, according to the board.

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Although water in New Orleans, west of the Industrial Canal, was deemed safe on Oct. 6, the Sewerage and Water Board had to fight numerous leaks and low water pressure throughout much of eastern New Orleans. Work on the lines is continuing throughout the city, the board said.
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I don't think I'd be drinking out of the tap anytime soon.

Three and a half months?

Thanks heavens we're not living in a Third World country. Then we'd really be *ucked.

Have you ever been under a boil order?
You can not eat or drink (obviously)and you can not wash (yourself, clothes or dishes) with out boiling water for 20 minutes and you are advised to add a "dash" of bleach. How much? We never knew.
It is not easy. The largest pot we have is quite heavy and when filled with hot boiling water dangerous. You can wait for it to cool. We only had one large pot. I spent my days and nights boiling and then cooling water.
Horrible conditions made worse by failure to act by our government.
One solution would have been (and it should be done now, still) is to bring trucks of water (like giant 18 wheeler milk trucks) into the neighborhoods.

N/T

How are you guys doing? I am amazed at how thirdworldly the south coast is right now (not bashing southcoasters but the damn administration and it's cronies that want to keep it that way). If you the Anita Garcia that I think you are, hi! and hi to spouse too! If you are not the AnitaGarcia I think you are, hi anyway. (Cryptic enough for a public forum?)
peace

You are correct uppity.
We are fine. So much better than many, many others.

Then it made sense. Thanks for everything you have done and continue to do and am glad you are doing at least okish.

edited to add, forgot to say, they are calling the water safe? my ass.

One solution would have been (and it should be done now, still) is to bring trucks of water (like giant 18 wheeler milk trucks) into the neighborhoods.

Funny, I just saw water trucks exactly like you describe on the news, only it wasn't here in the world's only superpower, but over in Harbin, China where there had been a benzene spill that closed the water intake for a few days.

Why doesn't Bush** just do the honorable thing and resign? Oh, right, "Bush**... honorable...". Never mind.

Sept 12, 2001.
Go ahead, drink it.

The location near the end of line for the crap of half the country necessitated the use of such huge amounts of chlorine that the water smelled and tasted horrible. This is good news, but I still wouldn't recommend cooking with or drinking the stuff without at least boiling it or letting it off-gas for a while.

But, with a boil water advisory, you can't clean with it or wash in it!

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whatever they say.

I never drank NOLA water and I don't intend to.

:shrug:

I was going to say tea party, but that requires boiling the water.

the water in New Orleans has not been safe to drink. They are trying to make a perception of recovery way too hastily.