Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : ‘Boil Water’ Order Issued as Precaution
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in and around the nation’s capital to boil their drinking water as a precaution because of problems at a federal filtration plant. The “boil order” came after officials feared the system might become contaminated with cryptosporidium, a protozoa that originates in animal waste.
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