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HOUSTON (AP) — More than 2 million people in the Houston area were urged to boil their tap water Monday The post Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in Houston appeared first on TheGrio.
Houston lifted a boil-water notice for residents Tuesday after finding no danger in the wake of a weekend power outage that shut a treatment plant serving the fourth largest U.S. city. Houston ...
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First known science-based boil-water advisory (1866) John Snow's 1849 recommendation that water be "filtered and boiled before it is used" is one of the first practical applications of the germ theory of disease in the area of public health and is the antecedent to the modern boil water advisory. Snow demonstrated a clear understanding of germ ...
A man loads a case of water into a car at a water and food distribution center in Houston on Thursday. - Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images CenterPoint crews repair power lines on Thursday in Houston.
Houston officials lifted an order Tuesday that had called for more than 2 million people in the nation's fourth-largest city to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.