{"id":183659,"date":"2021-02-20T03:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nearly-15m-texans-still-without-safe-water-after-winter-storm\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T03:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:14:27","slug":"nearly-15m-texans-still-without-safe-water-after-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nearly-15m-texans-still-without-safe-water-after-winter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nearly 15M Texans still without safe water after winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nearly 15M Texans still without safe water after winter storm<\/strong>”
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Nearly 15 million Texans were on a water-boil advisory and 140,600 remained without power Friday after a historic winter storm claimed dozens of lives \u2014 including that of an 11-year-old boy who app<\/a>eared to have frozen to death.<\/p>\n

At least 14.9 million Texas residents\u00a0 \u2014 roughly half of the state\u2019s population \u2014 were stuck with unsafe drinking water as of Friday evening, state officials told The Post.<\/p>\n

More than 1,300 public water systems in roughly 65 percent of counties in the Lone Star State were issued \u201cboil water notices\u201d to avoid ingesting e. coli and other bacteria, said Texas Commission on Environmental Quality spokeswoman Tiffany Young.<\/p>\n

The extreme weather\u00a0 \u2014 which was blamed for at least 36 deaths this week \u2014 knocked out power and caused \u201cmechanical failures\u201d at water treatment plants and distribution centers statewide, Young said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 11-year-old Cristian Pavon Peneda was reported to have died of suspected hypothermia when his mobile home in Conroe lost power amid single digit temperatures on Monday.<\/p>\n

The boy was found dead in his bed after playing in the snow for the first time in his life, his family told the Houston Chronicle. A medical examiner had not confirmed the child\u2019s official cause of death as of Friday.<\/p>\n

An unidentified 60-year-old man was also reportedly found \u201cfrozen to death\u201d in his recliner at his home in Abilene Wednesday after losing\u00a0 power for three days.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Texans also reported that their electric bills had skyrocketed to as high as $17,000 per month after the storm sparked a high demand for heat.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Nearly 15M Texans still without safe water after winter storm” Nearly 15 million Texans were on a water-boil advisory and 140,600 remained without power Friday after a historic winter storm claimed dozens of lives \u2014 including that of an 11-year-old boy who appeared to have frozen to death. At least 14.9 million Texas residents\u00a0 \u2014…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Texas-water.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,72150,77183,75035,6474,34115,80303],"class_list":["post-183659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-extreme-weather","tag-snow","tag-storms","tag-texas","tag-water","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}