Some 300,000 West Virginians—nearly 17 percent of the state’s population—have entered their fourth day without safe waterwith no timeline yet being offered as to when such water service will be restored. A state and federal state of emergency remains in effect for nine counties in southern West Virginia with residents advised not to drink, cook, wash or bathe with their tap water.
The state’s water supply has been contaminated from a chemical leak on the Elk River in Charleston just upstream from West Virginia American Water Company’s Kanawha Valley water treatment plant intake .... http://rinf.com
