The infrastructure woes behind a water failure that has disrupted life in Houston this week.
With 2 million Houston residents now having to boil water to cook and clean after a power outage at a water treatment plant, Texas continues its history of power grid failures and poor water quality.and caused water pressure to drop below the required minimum standards needed to maintain clean water.
Power has been restored to the plant, but testing for water contamination has begun and results are still being gathered. By late Sunday night, residents started to receive notice to boil their water before use.“We still have no indication that the system was compromised at any point,” Houston Public Works Director Carol HaddockOfficials in Houston have attempted to quell concerns about the outage.
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