အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေနာက္ဗာဂ်ီးနီးယားျပည္နယ္မွာ ဓာတုယုိဖိတ္မႈ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ သမၼတအိုဘားမားက အေနာက္ဗာဂ်ီးနီးယား ျပည္နယ္ကို အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေန ေၾကညာလိုက္ပါတယ္။
အဲဒီလို ဓာတုေဗဒ ယိုဖိတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းေတြနဲ႔အလုပ္ေတြကို ပိတ္ထားရၿပီး လူေပါင္း ၃ သိန္း ေလာက္လည္း ေသာက္ေရမရွိဘဲ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ ျပည္နယ္ အတြင္းမွာ ေနထိုင္ေနၾကတဲ့သူေတြဟာ ဆုိင္ေတြမွာရွိတဲ့ ေသာက္စရာေတြ အားလုံး ဘာမွမက်န္ေအာင္ ၀ယ္ယူတဲ့အထိ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။
အေျခအေနက မယုံႏုိင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ျဖစ္ေနၿပီး ဆုိင္ေတြမွာလူေတြ ျပည့္သိ္ပ္ေနၿပီး အခ်ဳိရည္ေတြ၊ ေရပုလင္းေတြ ဘာမွမက်န္တဲ့အထိေအာင္ ျဖစ္ေနတယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးစက္႐ံုံေတြမွာ အသုံးျပဳတဲ့ အႏၱရာယ္ရွိတဲ့ ဓာတုေဗဒပစၥည္းေတြဟာ အေနာက္ဗာဂ်ီးနီးယား ျပည္နယ္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ Charleston ၿမိဳ႕က Elk ျမစ္အတြင္းကို ၾကာသာပေတးေန႔က ေရေပးေ၀ေရးစခန္းနားမွာ ယိုဖိတ္ခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္ျဖစ္ၿပီးခ်ိန္ကစၿပီး ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းမွာ ေနေနတဲ့သူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဘုံပိုင္ကလာတဲ့ ေရေတြကို မေသာက္ဖို႔ ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရခ်ိဳးတာေတြ၊ ေလွ်ာ္ဖြပ္ တာေတြ မလုပ္ၾကဖို႔ ျပည္နယ္တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြက အႀကံေပးထားပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဗဟိုအစိုးရအာဏာပိုင္ေတြက စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈေတြကို လုပ္ေနၿပီျဖစ္တယ္လို႔လည္း တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။
Tap water may be out for days after W.Va. spill
Tap water in nine West Virginia counties continues to be off-limits, the governor said Saturday evening, as residents spent a third day unable to drink from the faucet or bathe following a chemical spill.
“We will let you know as soon as the water company lifts the ban,” Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said at a news conference. “Please remain patient and keep checking on your neighbors.”
Tomblin said officials will continue testing the water supply and purging the system, after nearly 800 people reported symptoms by Saturday afternoon.
“The chemical leak is unacceptable and must be cleaned up as soon as possible,” Tomblin added.
The National Guard said tests administered on the water on Saturday showed the contamination level was decreasing but that the water was not yet safe to use, reported NBC affiliate WSAZ.
“I would expect that we are talking days” before the water is safe, said West Virginia American Water's president, Jeff McIntyre.
The state's poison control center had logged 787 human exposure calls and 54 animal exposure calls since the massive leak sparked a tap-water ban for 300,000 residents, said the director Dr. Elizabeth Scharman.
Many of those were from people experiencing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, skin irritation or rashes in “varying degrees of severity," Scharman said.
The center — which called in staff from vacation, recruited volunteers and put workers on 16-hour shifts — recommended that only a few callers go to the emergency room because most of the symptoms can be treated at home.
At least 90 people showed up at hospitals, though the vast majority of them didn't require emergency treatment, Scharman said. As many as five people have been admitted.
The West Virginia American Water Co. announced Thursday that its water supply had become contaminated, after a leak from a Freedom Industries storage tank about a mile upstream on the Elk River sent a strange licorice-like smell wafting through the streets in Charleston, the state capital.
Tomblin declared a state of emergency in Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam and Roane counties after the spill of up to 5,000 gallons into the Elk River.
"If you live in one of these areas, do not use tap water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, washing, or bathing. At this time, I do not know how long this will last," Tomblin said Friday.
"If you are low on bottled water, do not panic. Help is on the way."
Officials said Saturday the governor had requested more bottled water from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Distribution centers continue to remain open.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/11/22258897-tap-water-may-be-out-for-days-after-wva-spill
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