Tap water warning to 88 Melbourne suburbs

[imastawka]

Yarra Valley Water issues tap water warning to 88 Melbourne suburbs after disaster storm

Thousands of Melbourne households are unable to drink tap water this morning after a power outage during a destructive storm caused untreated water to enter the supply system.

See link for list of suburbs affected -

https://www.9news.com.au/national/yarra-valley-water-issues-tap-water-warning-to-88-melbourne-suburb...

[lyndal1838]

Is it causing you any problems Stawks?

[domino-710]

Nah - I've sent her a case of her favourite wine. lol

[imastawka]

Hahaha    Thanks Dom

Nah, no problems  for me.

I'm known as a Preppie anyway.

I have a slab of bottled water on hand all the time.

Also, I didn't get a power outage, so all OK there too

[icyfroth]

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@imastawka wrote:

Hahaha    Thanks Dom

Nah, no problems  for me.

I'm known as a Preppie anyway.

I have a slab of bottled water on hand all the time.

Also, I didn't get a power outage, so all OK there too

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On first glance, I thought your post was "tap water warMing!

Thinkin' "what bloody next!"

[ambercat16]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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On first glance, I thought your post was "tap water warMing!

Thinkin' "what bloody next!"

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So did I.😄  

Maybe because I just used my kitchen tap to fill up the water jug and noted that the water was unusually warm here. 😁

[imastawka]

[imastawka]

Keep boiling that water, people

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/thousands-of-victorians-still-without-drinking-water/ar-BB1...

[rogespeed]

About time some of those leaky 100+ year old mains water pipes are replaced - now that there is not much traffic around 

[countessalmirena]

We have two enormous pots on the stove, filled up with water that's been boiled. I feel icky even washing my hands with tap water after using the toilet, so my current routine involves soap and water, followed by Aqium hand sanitiser, a dubious sniff of palm and digits, and wondering if there is a patron saint of hand hygiene.

Before the electricity was restored, I had the intention of buying bottled water to see us through at least 3 days.

(I was also just about to hop into my car with my almost-depleted phone and iPad and completely depleted portable chargers/power banks. I could drive around in an interesting pattern within a 5km-radius area while it all charged. That would have been a long drive - but I needed the phone in particular to be as full of juice as possible.)