Houston mayor defends boil water order that kept hundreds of thousands of children home from school

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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner cautions people against comparing the city's current boil-water order to last year's 'February freeze,' when the state's electric power grid collapsed and 246 people died.

Although both were caused by power outages — the boil order when an outage Sunday at a water purification plant caused water pressure to drop, triggering concerns of possible contamination — that's where the similarities end, he said.

Water quality testing was underway, and Turner said he anticipated the safety notice would be lifted sometime Tuesday morning. The East Water Purification Plant is outside the city, in Galena Park.Brandon Bell / Getty Images The city issued the boil water notice in an"abundance of caution" after the main transformer and its backup failed, Turner said. Even if generators had been turned on, the problem would still have occurred, he said.

Wanda Brown, a mother of two young children, headed to Kroger on Houston’s east side in search of bottled drinking water, but instead found empty shelves.

 

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I'm comparing it more to his Hurricane Harvey communication failures. I'm just thankful he can't run again.

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