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BOSTON WITHOUT WATER
Hello Evoke,
Currently This area of Boston is under a Boil Water Order. A water main pipe burst at 10am on May first leaving 2 million residence without water. Many local drug stores like CVS have already reported selling out of water.
It has not been announced when the Boil Water Order will be lifted but aid in the crisis 2.5 million gallons of water have been ordered that will soon arrive in 63 trailers carrying 55,000 gallons and costing $8000 each-- a total cost of $509,100. This water will be given out to high risk populations like the elderly.
It also has been reported that stores are beginning to raise prices on bottled water. Unstoppable market system or result of corrupt and evil store owners--discuss.
Anyway, Boston has requested aid from the Federal Government. I am excited to see Boston's resilience in action, although I hope it doesn't last too long :)
I now return to exile
-Live from the scene of the event
Wintermute.
Currently This area of Boston is under a Boil Water Order. A water main pipe burst at 10am on May first leaving 2 million residence without water. Many local drug stores like CVS have already reported selling out of water.
It has not been announced when the Boil Water Order will be lifted but aid in the crisis 2.5 million gallons of water have been ordered that will soon arrive in 63 trailers carrying 55,000 gallons and costing $8000 each-- a total cost of $509,100. This water will be given out to high risk populations like the elderly.
It also has been reported that stores are beginning to raise prices on bottled water. Unstoppable market system or result of corrupt and evil store owners--discuss.
Anyway, Boston has requested aid from the Federal Government. I am excited to see Boston's resilience in action, although I hope it doesn't last too long :)
I now return to exile
-Live from the scene of the event
Wintermute.
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Comment by Wintermute on May 3, 2010 at 12:25am
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Well the buckets are outside waiting for the storms. I don't quite understand where the parasites are from, the soil?
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on May 3, 2010 at 12:27am
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Heh, Shanna, I don't have a wife (though I'm not against gay marriage!). I do have a husband, but he's pretending he's not my husband these days, and I live with friends. :-) But that's a wh*** 'nother story!
And yeah, there are plenty of filters out there that are designed to clean water and make it fit for drinking. Pretty much only the really silly waste of money one's like the Britta pitchers and screw-on-faucet ones don't.
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Comment by Andrew Anstrom on May 3, 2010 at 1:04am
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This is America there will be no water "riot" because of store owners. Its supply and demand, demand soared while supply plummeted, basic economics. Aid is being deployed to the region, and tap water is still being supplied. Seems like a closed case to me. +1 knowledge share
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Comment by Jean Frankly on May 3, 2010 at 2:36am
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Those price hikes remind me of the Big Blackout of 2003 in Ontario and Northeastern U.S. A crisis brings out the best and worst in people.
Some retailers jacked up the price of gas - and even bottled water, as many people in my city had to walk for miles to get home on a hot August day. But other retailers were practically giving away icecream and perishable foods that wouldn't last without refrigeration. A nearby store owner had power but chose to light only half of his shop to help reduce the energy load. I suspect many consumers still remember these acts of generosity and greed.
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Comment by Shanna on May 3, 2010 at 3:46am
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@Turil-- Wow. Sorry. The number of assumptions I made while reading quickly are ridiculous. I apologize again.
@Andrew-- As for basic economics, yes, I suppose it does work that way, but in a crisis situation what we need is not economics but common sense and a little generosity. Now let's take a step away from the Boston situation, where we are still receiving water through the taps and aid is rapidly being deployed for vulnerable populations. Let's take a leap and say the back up water has run out and aid is being restricted to vulnerable populations (such as the elderly, infirm, or pregnant). Stores are still receiving their water shipments from companies but supply is limited, so let's leave that the same. In such a situation, there would be riots, partly because there wouldn't be enough water supplied in the short term (though back up supplies would be on their way, hopefully) and those who arrived first (if they had the money) would get most of the water; partly because, if stores raised their prices, peoples' ability to pay for water would dictate how much they received, rather than their need. Since people who are able tend to buy and horde what they can in such situations, those with the most money (and physical ability to protect their purchases) would have the lions share of water, leaving others in the dust. And yes, there are plenty of people in Boston who are just a pay check away from such a situation (including over 100,000 college students). No, price stabilization would not fix anything (the scarce resource would disappear that much faster) which is why it would have to be done in conjunction with a water ration per person. But the point is that letting basic economics rule in such a situation necessarily denies those who have least what they need just as much as everyone else.
So no, there won't be a water riot because of store owners in our current situation. Yes, it is basic economics. But that doesn't make economics right, especially when we're dealing with a basic human right, and it doesn't mean that economics would keep a riot from happening had the taps not been flowing. It seems to me that store owners' responses here are pretty indicative of how they would react even if taps weren't flowing, in which case they would be directly responsible (in conjunction with the city of Boston for not instituting a ration, hypothetically) for a riot.
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