Do you have the link for this I haven't heard anything about this

Looked into this there's more like a contamination all water must be boiled here

Yep. There's actually quite a few places with a boil water order in affect (effect??? lol, totally not an English major!!) in the surrounding area. We r currently waiting on the delivery of potable water for distribution to some places this evening. Man, does anyone have any idea how frustrating it is to tell ur family what to do, and they just totally ignore you 'cuz they don't think it's really all that important?!? Aarrrggggghhhhhh!!!!! I digress.

Yeah can only use water for eating and drinking no bathing apparently for 4 days minimum

Well I'm not totally sure on that. Healthy adults can bathe, but u shouldn't stick your toddlers or even children in the tub or shower. Just sponge bathe them, and it would be better if it was with potable water as toddlers tend to stick their hands in their mouths, and your probably not going to be able to 'lather' them for the appropriate amount of time... CHR has some good info on it. And of course conserve the crap outta the water u do need to use, so we don't gotta deal with this for a week (maybe only a few day).

So they say something like...3 days or 6 meals on the shelves (I can't remember @ the moment)...Lethbridge was told 8hrs of potable water left in the system around lunch time...4 hrs later a boil water order is issued, and they may run out of water for fire suppression...all stores sold out of bottled water before 4pm. And they make fun of us?? 🙄

I fail to understand how water turbidity, thus requiring boiling, lead to "a risk of not having enough water for fire suppression"?!?!?

Don't worry your not the only one the whole city is like shut down all the stores and shops are selling only food not beverage unless bottle

I'm not 100% sure myself, but I think it has something to do with the combination of the ability to draw the water from the river through the filters, the level of the tanks that water is stored in, the panic of unprepared/selfish individuals (for instance, the line ups at the car wash yesterday at lunch time..what the...and we were under instructions to conserve water???), the refusal of large companies who use a ridiculous amount of water in a day to process food (I won't mention the company by name but jeeeeese!!!) which ends up going directly into the drain, and I believe that the water that comes from the hydrants is....potable (I will find out for sure later today). I have never understood why we water our lawns, wash our vehicles, etc. with potable water, and goes right down the drain...why do we want to use more energy, chemicals, etc. than we have to...I don't understand that!

I'm not 100% sure myself, but I think it has something to do with the combination of the ability to draw the water from the river through the filters, the level of the tanks that water is stored in, the panic of unprepared/selfish individuals (for instance, the line ups at the car wash yesterday at lunch time..what the...and we were under instructions to conserve water???), the refusal of large companies who use a ridiculous amount of water in a day to process food (I won't mention the company by name but jeeeeese!!!) which ends up going directly into the drain, and I believe that the water that comes from the hydrants is....potable (I will find out for sure later today). I have never understood why we water our lawns, wash our vehicles, etc. with potable water, and goes right down the drain...why do we want to use more energy, chemicals, etc. than we have to...I don't understand that!

I didn't hear that one of the food processors refused to stop or slow production - it sucks. As to your question about the fire hydrants, etc operating on potable water - it only makes sense when you consider the infrastructure underground. To have two separate systems (one with potable water and another with grey water) underground would be incredibly expensive to operate and maintain. Consider how often the streets are torn up for frozen water mains... now double it.

I did a bunch of work at the meat packing plant in Brooks. Specifically, civil work in their independent water treatment plant. Yes, they use a staggering amount of potable water for the processing of all of that beef. To their credit, they maintain a state of the art water treatment facility.

I'm not 100% sure myself, but I think it has something to do with the combination of the ability to draw the water from the river through the filters, the level of the tanks that water is stored in, the panic of unprepared/selfish individuals (for instance, the line ups at the car wash yesterday at lunch time..what the...and we were under instructions to conserve water???), the refusal of large companies who use a ridiculous amount of water in a day to process food (I won't mention the company by name but jeeeeese!!!) which ends up going directly into the drain, and I believe that the water that comes from the hydrants is....potable (I will find out for sure later today). I have never understood why we water our lawns, wash our vehicles, etc. with potable water, and goes right down the drain...why do we want to use more energy, chemicals, etc. than we have to...I don't understand that!

The car wash? Really? Those same people would be licking the toilet the next day if this were something more serious.

In all fairness, I blame the car wash operator(s) for not closing. I ll give the car owners the benefit of the doubt they weren't aware of the situation.

That was pretty much it canadian gurl

On the news report when I first made this post the car washes were told to shut down or the water to their business would be turned off...sad that people were lining up to wash their vehicles...wrong priorities as usual...after the flooding and water issues last year it seems people still did not bother to store water and supplies.