Water "emergency"

On early Saturday morning, May 1st a pipe that delivers water to the Quabbin Reservoir to Boston ruptured. The water from the ruptured piped quickly followed into a near by Charles River. The city along with 29 suburbs are still without clean water for 2 days now and officials are still without meaning of what caused this rupture. The state order around 2.5 million drinking water for the needy, nursing homes and vulnerable populations. 

On May 2nd it hit to the high 80's and people filled the stores looking for water. The water being delivered to homes as of now is 3/5 of pond water from Chestnut Hill Reservoir. As of last night around 10:30 pm, workers had said they successfully welded the pipes together and now looking for leaks. Even though the pipes are welded and fixed the next step is to test the water. At least two separate water drinking test need to be done to make sure the water is drinkable. Officials are still looking into why and how the collar connecting the pipes could have ruptured and how we can prevent this from happening again. A lot of stores and cafes had to close due to their supplies are unable to be made because of no clean water. On the day the collar broke I was working at Shaw's Supermarket, my lines went down the store with people buying gallons of water. All registers were open and lines were filled with about 12 people at a time. The mobs of people were shocked about have no water and worried when it would come back on. 

On May 4th Governor Deval Patrick has announced that the fixing of a water pipe could have taken about a week to fix but was done in 72 hours. The Boston area now has clean water, he also promised to make a review how the collar broke.

Below is the video of Deval Patrick announcement of the clean water-

"If there were a sink in here, I would take a glass from 

the tap and drink it myself. I'm very confident." 

Patrick said at a news conference in Chelsea this morning.

"Early on we made a strategic decision that every minute that we spend . . . 

trying to figure out what happened is an hour that was wasted that couldn't 

be used to get the problem resolved,"

said MWRA executive director Frederick A. Laskey