Waterproof, Louisiana, has experienced outages involving its water supply, causing residents to turn on the tap only to find nothing dripping out repeatedly, sometimes for weeks at a time or even longer despite 'water' being in the name of the village.
Water provided to Waterproof, Louisiana is processed more than a dozen miles away at the Tensas Water Distribution Association., causing residents to turn on the tap only to find nothing dripping out repeatedly, sometimes for weeks at a time or even longer despite "water" being in the name of the village.
Keeping her food truck business afloat requires water for cooking and sanitation, but the instability of the water supply in Waterproof means that Rollins' ability to make a living can often be in jeopardy. ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami and Waterproof, Louisiana Mayor Jarrod Bottley walk down Main Street in what once was a busy business district near the Mississippi River.
One of the most recent extended outages occurred last Christmas when freezing temperatures plagued parts of the South."I think that moment will forever linger in my head," Bottley said. "It started Christmas Eve, and it lingered on over, and then it came again. People were in town, the streets were full, households were packed. People were cooking, the aroma of foods was high in the air, and all of a sudden, in the middle of cooking, we were waterless.
Boil water advisories and other alerts in St. Tammany are far from uncommon. Residents of the parish even created a Facebook group to discuss concerns about their water supply with each other. A common complaint from residents in some parts of the parish is that their water sometimes has a brown color.
St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper said that the parish, which was primarily rural until the last few decades, does not have a utilities system covering its entire area and instead has a number of different government-run and private firms providing water to residents.
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