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Unsafe water forces (VA) Beach school to be creative
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/03/unsafe-water-forces-beach-school-be-creativeUnsafe water forces Beach school to be creative
By Mary Beth Cleavelin
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 5, 2014
VIRGINIA BEACH
Carlene Bond-Adams, the cafeteria manager at Creeds Elementary School, arrives at 6 a.m. so she can begin boiling water in a waist-high metal pot. Once it's ready, she pours the water into buckets and mixes it with bleach to clean kitchen floors and work stations. She pulls out a case of bottled water and sets it aside for cooking.
~snip~
In a lounge upstairs, a teacher pours distilled water from a jug to make coffee.
That's because the tap water at Creeds is not safe to drink.
The routine may sound like something from a Third World country, but it's happening at a public school in the state's most populous city.
