Boil-Water Advisories Impact Business in Vancouver, Nanaimo and Chemainus
Posted on: Friday, 17 November 2006, 12:00 CST
VANCOUVER (CP) - It's getting harder to find bottled water or buy a cup of coffee after boil-water advisories were issued in Greater Vancouver and a couple of communities on Vancouver Island.
Health officials urged people not to drink or brush their teeth with tap water after landslides triggered by this week's heavy rain increased turbidity levels in watersheds.
The advisories sent residents rushing to stores to stock up on bottled water and left many without their coffee fix today.
Some coffee outlets have decided it's too big a task to boil litres and litres of water to keep the machines going, while others are still brewing up a storm with filtered or boiled water.
The advisories affect two-million people in the Vancouver area, 100,000 in Nanaimo and another 1,500 in Chemainus, south of Nanaimo.
B.C. Hydro is working from Vancouver Island to Chilliwack on the mainland to restore electricity to almost 60,000 homes still without power, down from almost 200,000 at the peak of Wednesday's storm.
Source: Canadian Press
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