{"id":9161,"date":"2021-02-23T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2021-04-10T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T13:33:00","slug":"blizzard-nearly-9-million-texans-still-lack-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/blizzard-nearly-9-million-texans-still-lack-clean-water\/","title":{"rendered":"After the blizzard, nearly 9 million Texans still lack clean water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Millions of Texans continue to be advised to boil water before use after a blizzard, although all the power plants were back up and running over the weekend and electricity was restored to most homes when weather returned to normal.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Owen Church and the owner of Rain Pure Mountain Spring Water Company drove from Georgia to donate water to residents of Austin, Texas. (Image: Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAs of 7 a.m. on Monday, more than 1,200 water systems reported a weather disruption. Boiling drinking warnings must be issued in many regions, \u201d<\/em> a spokesman for the Texas Environmental Quality Board (TCEQ) said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

“This situation is affecting directly more than 8.8 million people, in 199 counties of Texas.”<\/em><\/p>\n

As of Sunday, officials in Houston, the state’s largest city, said the water is safe to use without boiling.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 147 water purification systems for a community of 120,000 people are completely useless. In addition, the eight wastewater treatment systems cannot operate either, \u201d<\/em> report by TCEQ.<\/p>\n

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Austin resident Marie Maybou cooks snow for drinking water. (Image: Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Governor Greg Abbott said he joined the Texas Air Guard, Texas National Guard and the federal army to distribute water.<\/p>\n

“About 3.5 million bottles of water have been delivered,”<\/em> the governor said via Twitter message.<\/p>\n

Texas is also pulling in plumbers from out of state to help repair broken pipes, Abbott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd uninsured homeowners or tenants can request reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Administration (FEMA),\u201d<\/em> said Governor Abbott.<\/p>\n

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Jason Parish, a volunteer, has been visiting Austin’s home water supplies. (Image: Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The FEMA said it had sent out generators, water, and blankets to Texas, and was preparing diesel refueling to support the power generation system in this state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Millions of Texans continue to be advised to boil water before use after a blizzard, although all the power plants were back up and running over the weekend and electricity was restored to most homes when weather returned to normal. \u201cAs of 7 a.m. on Monday, more than 1,200 water systems reported a weather disruption. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4820,2490,2438,2440,2630,2488,4822,4772],"class_list":{"0":"post-9161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-blizzard","9":"tag-illume-en","10":"tag-illume-e-magazine-online-cover","11":"tag-illume-emag-en","12":"tag-illume-mag-en","13":"tag-illume-magazine","14":"tag-texans","15":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}