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Re:Boil Water Notice for City of Houston by refurb on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:49AM (#33772453)
I mean Canada had a bunch of people die from unsafe drinking water not that long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak

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Re:Boil Water Notice for City of Houston by Narretz on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:23AM (#33773308)
The article is very in-depth and shows a long list of failures, well into the disaster response. But it was also 22 years ago.
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Re:Boil Water Notice for City of Houston by refurb on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:24AM (#33774720)
Here are all the current water quality notices in Canada right now.

There are dozens of them.

http://www.watertoday.ca/textm.asp

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Re:Boil Water Notice for City of Houston by Narretz on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:14AM (#33798534)
This only suggests that quality control and warning system are working. The 2000 case is infamous because both didn't work and caused deaths and permanent injury.
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