Head for the hills! The kitchen sink is on fire

It’s a bad day when bong water is cleaner than drinking water, when kids are playing “hey mister” outside a Stop and Shop trying to get a gallon jug of purified H20, when Boston residents travel all the way to New Hampshire for a couple bottles of Poland Spring. Today, as all of our faucets, showers, and sinks are off limits it makes you realize the incredible demand and use we have for clean water and what it takes to get that water.

Workers today began repairing the massive underground pipe that abruptly ruptured yesterday, cutting off drinking water to nearly two million people in the Boston area. Governor Deval Patrick said that if the workers can successfully patch the pipe and no other leaks are discovered, clean drinking water could be flowing back into the Boston area in "days, not weeks."

"The extent of the damage is not as great as we feared,'' he said at a press conference overlooking a crater in Weston, where workers in hard hats were welding the pipe back together.

The pipe ruptured cleanly at one of its seams, which had been connected with a large metal collar squeezing around a rubber band. Workers today were busy welding a new collar onto the pipe -- a process expected to last into the evening.

Officials then plan to test the connection and look for other potential leaks by forcing water back into the pipe. If there are no leaks, they will surround the pipe with concrete and pump clean water from the Quabbin Reservoir back into the system. The order to boil water, however, will not be lifted until officials can thoroughly test the region's water supply and make sure it is safe to drink.

People all day yesterday were saying “omgggg – some pipe broke and water was coming out. They’d be right in saying something broke but it was much bigger than just some pipe. It was the gahd damn aqueduct the massive-assive pipe that’s in charge of getting the water to the pipes – the super mega highway of water travel. Now we got people buying and selling bottles of water like they were oranges at the end of “Trading Places”.


Fuck it – I don’t want my MTV, I want my H20!