Hurray for Vancouver!! Now why the hell is my water still a brownish grey color?
[H2]Boil-water advisory lifted; water now safe to drink[/H2]
[H4][FONT size=1]Vancouver Sun[/FONT][/H4][FONT size=1]Published: Monday, November 27, 2006[/FONT]
[DIV class=para12 id=article] Greater Vancouver's drinking water is clean and safe and no longer has to be boiled, regional health and water officials said today as they lifted a boil-water advisory.
After nearly 12 days of boiling murky tap water and carting home cartons of bottled water, residents of Vancouver, Burnaby and most of the North Shore can go back to drinking tap water with no precautions, said Vancouver-Coastal medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly.
Any taps that have not been used during that period should be run for three minutes to flush out any cloudy water still sitting in home water pipes, said regional water commissioner Johnny Carline.
Daly said the drinking water tested negative for harmful organisms throughout the 12-day period — one sample that tested positive was contaminated after it came out of the water system — and no unusual numbers of gastro-intestinal illnesses have been reported.
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