Toledo tells residents not to drink water

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared a state of emergency Saturday after residents of Toledo, the state's fourth-largest city, were told not to drink from the city's water supply due to a sudden spike in its level of toxins.

Residents were also forbidden from using the water to brush their teeth or wash their dishes while samples were flown to the federal and state Environmental Protection Agency offices in Cincinnati and Columbus and a university in Michigan for additional testing. Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins also warned that children should not shower or bathe in the water and that it shouldn't be given to pets.

The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan. Kasich pledged that state agencies were working to bring water and other supplies to areas around Toledo while also assisting hospitals and other businesses impacted. The state also was making plans to make more deliveries if the water problem lingered, he said.

Late Saturday, the governor ordered the state's National Guard to deliver water purification systems, pallets of bottled water and meals ready to eat, or MREs, to residents in Lucas, Wood and Fulton counties.

Toledo issued the warning just after midnight Saturday after tests at one treatment plant showed two sample readings for microsystin above the standard for consumption.

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[Vykranth]

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The algae growth is fed by phosphorus mainly from farm fertilizer runoff and sewage treatment plants, leaving behind toxins that have contributed to oxygen-deprived dead zones where fish can't survive. The toxins can kill animals and sicken humans.

 

And now, altogether, 'the EPA is evil' and ' we do not need regulation because the invisible hand of the free market will solve the problem'

 

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Amazing how many bad things can get in to water.

 

Glad I drink distilled.

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And now, altogether, 'the EPA is evil' and ' we do not need regulation because the invisible hand of the free market will solve the problem'

 

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It will, they'll sell you a cure after they poison you  :laugh:

[EddieF]

Let me tell ya.. this has been an experience!  After the initial panic and the city running out of water, now stores have more water than they know what they can do with!  I just wish we could do our dishes and such like normal!

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And now, altogether, 'the EPA is evil' and ' we do not need regulation because the invisible hand of the free market will solve the problem'

 

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Heh, they ignore laws and regulations which could result in fines and negative press, imagine if there were no rules they had to follow & no one trying to enforce them.