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by SilasX 2534 days ago
Last October in Austin, there was a bitter irony: after heavy rains, the systems for filtering the water were overloaded and they put out a warning that water wasn't safe to drink (though fine for other purposes).

"Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink."

Story about it:

https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/austin-water-safe-dri...