A boil water advisory as Mount Shasta readies for busy summer.
A water-boiling advisory has forced several Mount Shasta restaurants to close their doors or go with limited menus right around the time they are preparing for a busy Fourth of July weekend.
Black Bear Diner closed on Sunday but is set to reopen today at 1:30 p.m. Employees are using only bottled drinking water to wash and cook food.
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The city of Mount Shasta issued the advisory after finding E. coli in its water supply.
Timing is key, with the uptick in summer tourism.
"But this morning I got confirmation from city workers that everything should be OK in the next few days and back to normal."
Besides, Maxwell said, there will be plenty of bottled drinking water at the festival.
Residents can also use bottled water.
Boiled or bottled water should replace the tap water used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation until further notice.

Startup of the Week: Tern Water to Tackle the Drinking Water Crisis Faucet by Faucet.
Start Date: Early 2016 One Sentence Pitch: Products and services to help users get access to smart, sustainable, and healthy water.
The team’s first clean water awareness project—“Know Your Water”—is already underway.
Mo Zerban, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Tern Water, has been working on sustainable innovation since his high school years in Alexandria, Egypt.
“I realized that there is a bigger awareness problem than there is a technology problem,“ says Zerban.
So far, Tern has tested over 200 Know Your Water capsules during the service’s pilot phase, and expects many more customers once they begin to aggressively publicize the project in the coming weeks.
The tests allow the company to construct a database of private water supplies in the area, provided by the people who will likely become their first customers when the Tern Faucet is available for sale.
“[Know Your Water] is helping us directly understand what the consumers want.” What consumers want, explains Zerban – citing the years-long tragedy over undetected lead in the Flint, Michigan drinking water – is reassurance.
He wants his startup to provide a means to both.
Tern comes from the word “pattern,” “and at Tern,” explains Zerban, “we are working to keep clean water in the normal pattern of life.”

Seneca Nation, town of North Collins sign water agreement.
IRVING — Thanks to an agreement between the Seneca Nation and the Town of North Collins, residents in the hamlet of Lawtons will finally see the end to long-standing issues on drinking water quality in their community.
The agreement, which was approved by both the Seneca Nation Council and the North Collins Town Board, allows for the Town’s Lawtons Water District to purchase water from the Seneca Nation to provide to residents in the Lawtons community.
The Nation will provide the Lawtons Water District, through the Nation’s present system of water mains, an average of up to 20,000 gallons per day of potable water.
Lawtons Water District will construct, provide and maintain any additional necessary water mains and service connections within its service area.
“Water is life, and having access to safe drinking water should not be a concern for the people of our community,” said Seneca Nation President Todd Gates.
“The Seneca Nation is proud to work with the Town of North Collins and the Lawtons Water District to provide this much-needed solution for our neighbors in Lawtons.” Lawtons was one of three locations in Erie County recently cited by a Natural Resources Defense Council report detailing health threats in tap water across nearly 5,000 community water systems nationwide.
The Lawtons service area has experienced long-standing issues with water quality, likely connected to the shallow, nearly century-old well serving the roughly 95 residents in the area.
“I would like the thank President Gates and the Seneca Nation for their help in bringing clean drinking water to our community.” The Nation’s provision of water to the Lawtons Water District will be based on an annual base rate established by the Nation.
The rate will not exceed the existing rate at the time set by the Erie County Water Authority for general metered purposes, or other such rates as may be applicable to the Nation’s water supply.

DeVille: Trump’s ‘America First’ puts Native America last.
The Trump administration budget proposal is detrimental for all Americans.
When Trump’s budget was announced weeks ago, I was appalled.
The administration has proposed cutting the EPA’s budget by $2.5 billion and DOI’s budget by $1.6 billion, which would eliminate key programs that North Dakotans need to ensure that we leave a strong and healthy legacy for our children.
Living in the heart of the Bakken oilfields, I have seen firsthand the important work that the EPA does in North Dakota.
In North Dakota, headwater, rain-fed and seasonal streams contribute to the drinking water supplies of 290,000 people.
Disregarding that our children and the generations that follow have access to clean drinking water, Trump and his administration have put the needs of corporate polluters first.
We treasure our public lands in North Dakota.
Our parks, waters and lands are part of America’s outdoor heritage, and we have a moral obligation to protect them.
Trump’s budget cuts over $1 billion dollars from America’s National Parks, putting American family’s opportunities to experience places like Theodore Roosevelt National Park in jeopardy.

Official ground-breaking ceremony for upgrades to Shawinigan’s drinking water infrastructure.
Julie Boulet, Quebec Minister of Tourism, Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and Member of the National Assembly for Laviolette, Pierre Giguère, Member of the National Assembly for Saint-Maurice, and Michel Angers, Mayor of Shawinigan, participated in the official ground-breaking ceremony marking the continuation of work to upgrade the City’s drinking water infrastructure.
This investment in water infrastructure will allow the City of Shawinigan to ensure better water management, a healthier environment and improved public services for residents."
Julie Boulet, Quebec Minister of Tourism, Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and Member of the National Assembly for Laviolette, on behalf of Martin Coiteux, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Minister of Public Security and Minister Responsible for the Montréal Region "The Government of Quebec is proud to support water projects, such as the one starting today, that improve public services at the municipal level.
Michel Angers, Mayor of Shawinigan Quick Facts To meet the requirements of the Quebec Department of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, the City of Shawinigan is starting the construction of two new water treatment plants this year, one for water drawn from Lac des Piles and the other for water from Lac à la Pêche.
The project to upgrade the drinking water infrastructure also includes modifying the water supply system to connect the Saint-Georges and Lac-à-la-Tortue sectors to the Lac à la Pêche water supply system.
The Government of Canada will provide more than $180 billion in infrastructure funding over 12 years for public transit, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, transportation that supports trade, and Canada’s rural and northern communities.
Under the 2017‒2027 Quebec Infrastructure Plan, the Quebec Department of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy will invest a total of $15 billion in infrastructure thanks to $7 billion in government financial support.
Related links For more information on City of Shawinigan’s drinking water infrastructure upgrades: www.shawinigan.ca/miseauxnormes.
For more information on the Government of Canada’s $180 billion-plus infrastructure plan in Budget 2017: http://www.budget.gc.ca/2017/docs/plan/chap-02-en.html Federal investments in Quebec infrastructure projects: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/map-carte/index-eng.html Major Infrastructure Component of the Building Canada Fund http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/prog/programs-infc-summary-eng.html#bcf-mic Building Canada Fund‒Quebec: http://www.mamot.gouv.qc.ca/infrastructures/programmes-daide-financiere/fonds-chantiers-canada-quebec-fccq/ 2017‒2027 Quebec Infrastructure Plan: https://www.tresor.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/PDF/budget_depenses/17-18/infrastructuresPubliquesQuebec.pdf SOURCE Infrastructure Canada For further information: Contacts: Brook Simpson, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, 613-219-0149; Marie-Ève Pelletier, Director of Communications and Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Minister of Public Security and Minister Responsible for the Montreal Region, 418-691-2050; Patrick Soucy, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Tourism and Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and MNA for Laviolette, 418-528-8063; François St-Onge, Director, Communications Unit, City of Shawinigan, 819-536-7200; For information: Infrastructure Canada, 613-960-9251, Toll free: 1-877-250-7154, E-mail: infc.media.infc@canada.ca, Twitter: @INFC_eng, Website: Infrastructure Canada; Pierre-Luc Lévesque, Communications Branch, Department of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy and Department of Public Security, 418-691-2015, ext.

Every year, over 2 billion pounds of toxic wastewater is dumped into our waterways by power plants – the largest source of toxic water pollution in our country.
Approximately 23,000 miles of rivers and streams in the United States are contaminated because of this pollution, including many drinking water sources.
In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally issued a regulation that addressed this massive source of unregulated pollution: the Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards for Steam Electric Power Plants, often referred to as the “ELG rule.” This rule requires power generators to stop discharging many of these toxics into our waterways.
We have provided a comment template below that you can use, but please consider personalizing it and explaining why getting toxic pollutants out of our waterways and drinking water sources is so important to you!
Postponing and rewriting this rule will delay long needed reductions in toxic pollution to drinking water sources for communities and waterways around the country.
This delay in creating meaningful limitations on toxic pollutants are the reason why coal-fired power plants are now the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.
These toxic pollutants harm communities around the country and the ELG rule is a very feasible plan to drastically reduce this harm.
Rolling back the ELG rule will not make the costs associated with these pollutants disappear – it will just push costs from the power plant companies onto the public.
Communities will continue to have their sources of drinking water contaminated.
I urge you to reconsider this action and allow the long-awaited and very necessary ELG rule to be fully implemented under the schedule set forth in the ELG Rule.

The ongoing campaign provides safe drinking water to a school child in a developing country for an entire school year for every LifeStraw water filter or purifier purchased in North America or Europe.
Since LifeStraw and Managing Director Alison Hill (pictured above) launched the program in 2014, Follow the Liters has provided more than 1,000 schools with high-volume LifeStraw water purifiers, delivering safe water to over 629,000 school children in Kenya and India.
We spoke to Hill about the program’s success, and what’s next for LifeStraw’s corporate social responsibility program.
Since 2008, Vestergaard has been conducting health campaigns in western Kenya, including a household safe water program covering over 800,000 households with the LifeStraw Family purifiers, implemented in 2011.
So, the Follow the Liters Program was born, linking every retail sale with a measurable impact for a child in developing communities.
It is not just about how many LifeStraw Community Water purifiers are provided to schools, it is about how much education and training is done, how easily maintenance is accessible, how many children are drinking the safe water and how many illnesses are prevented.
How has Follow the Liters impacted the development of LifeStraw’s consumer products?
LifeStraw Play, a smaller bottle designed with kids in mind, in particular was inspired by Follow the Liters as we sought to provide safe water to school children in developed communities and then connect them with the children within the Follow the Liters Program.
We currently have 34 staff in Kenya dedicated to implementing the Follow the Liters program.
So the challenge is maintaining that quality and oversite as we continue to scale – forging new relationships with key leaders in new regions and finding quality local staff that uphold our programmatic standards.

As the filtration and purification company’s Follow the Liters program nears its goal of providing safe drinking water for one million children, Hill reflects on the experience and what’s next for LifeStraw’s CSR efforts.
The ongoing campaign provides safe drinking water to a school child in a developing country for an entire school year for every LifeStraw water filter or purifier purchased in North America or Europe.
Since LifeStraw and Managing Director Alison Hill (pictured above) launched the program in 2014, Follow the Liters has provided more than 1,000 schools with high-volume LifeStraw water purifiers, delivering safe water to over 629,000 school children in Kenya and India.
We spoke to Hill about the program’s success, and what’s next for LifeStraw’s corporate social responsibility program.
Since 2008, Vestergaard has been conducting health campaigns in western Kenya, including a household safe water program covering over 800,000 households with the LifeStraw Family purifiers, implemented in 2011.
So, the Follow the Liters Program was born, linking every retail sale with a measurable impact for a child in developing communities.
It is not just about how many LifeStraw Community Water purifiers are provided to schools, it is about how much education and training is done, how easily maintenance is accessible, how many children are drinking the safe water and how many illnesses are prevented.
How has Follow the Liters impacted the development of LifeStraw’s consumer products?
LifeStraw Play, a smaller bottle designed with kids in mind, in particular was inspired by Follow the Liters as we sought to provide safe water to school children in developed communities and then connect them with the children within the Follow the Liters Program.
So the challenge is maintaining that quality and oversite as we continue to scale – forging new relationships with key leaders in new regions and finding quality local staff that uphold our programmatic standards.

Official ground-breaking ceremony for upgrades to Shawinigan’s drinking water infrastructure.
Julie Boulet, Quebec Minister of Tourism, Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and Member of the National Assembly for Laviolette, Pierre Giguère, Member of the National Assembly for Saint-Maurice, and Michel Angers, Mayor of Shawinigan, participated in the official ground-breaking ceremony marking the continuation of work to upgrade the City’s drinking water infrastructure.
This investment in water infrastructure will allow the City of Shawinigan to ensure better water management, a healthier environment and improved public services for residents."
Julie Boulet, Quebec Minister of Tourism, Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and Member of the National Assembly for Laviolette, on behalf of Martin Coiteux, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Minister of Public Security and Minister Responsible for the Montréal Region "The Government of Quebec is proud to support water projects, such as the one starting today, that improve public services at the municipal level.
Michel Angers, Mayor of Shawinigan Quick Facts To meet the requirements of the Quebec Department of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, the City of Shawinigan is starting the construction of two new water treatment plants this year, one for water drawn from Lac des Piles and the other for water from Lac à la Pêche.
The project to upgrade the drinking water infrastructure also includes modifying the water supply system to connect the Saint-Georges and Lac-à-la-Tortue sectors to the Lac à la Pêche water supply system.
The Government of Canada will provide more than $180 billion in infrastructure funding over 12 years for public transit, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, transportation that supports trade, and Canada’s rural and northern communities.
Under the 2017‒2027 Quebec Infrastructure Plan, the Quebec Department of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy will invest a total of $15 billion in infrastructure thanks to $7 billion in government financial support.
Related links For more information on City of Shawinigan’s drinking water infrastructure upgrades: www.shawinigan.ca/miseauxnormes.
For more information on the Government of Canada’s $180 billion-plus infrastructure plan in Budget 2017: http://www.budget.gc.ca/2017/docs/plan/chap-02-en.html Federal investments in Quebec infrastructure projects: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/map-carte/index-eng.html Major Infrastructure Component of the Building Canada Fund http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/prog/programs-infc-summary-eng.html#bcf-mic Building Canada Fund‒Quebec: http://www.mamot.gouv.qc.ca/infrastructures/programmes-daide-financiere/fonds-chantiers-canada-quebec-fccq/ 2017‒2027 Quebec Infrastructure Plan: https://www.tresor.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/PDF/budget_depenses/17-18/infrastructuresPubliquesQuebec.pdf SOURCE Infrastructure Canada For further information: Contacts: Brook Simpson, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, 613-219-0149; Marie-Ève Pelletier, Director of Communications and Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Minister of Public Security and Minister Responsible for the Montreal Region, 418-691-2050; Patrick Soucy, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Tourism and Minister Responsible for the Mauricie Region and MNA for Laviolette, 418-528-8063; François St-Onge, Director, Communications Unit, City of Shawinigan, 819-536-7200; For information: Infrastructure Canada, 613-960-9251, Toll free: 1-877-250-7154, E-mail: infc.media.infc@canada.ca, Twitter: @INFC_eng, Website: Infrastructure Canada; Pierre-Luc Lévesque, Communications Branch, Department of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy and Department of Public Security, 418-691-2015, ext.

Some 60,000 Wilmington, N.C., residents get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River.
DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours manufacture chemicals at a plant upstream from the city.
Wilmington residents are demanding to know if those toxic chemicals are making their way downriver into the city’s drinking water.
And we want to know how long that compound or that chemical had been dispersed into the Cape Fear River.
And because of an EPA rule, Chemours’ release of GenX into the Cape Fear River for nearly four decades may have been perfectly legal; that’s because it is a byproduct of another substance.
The long-term health effects of GenX on humans are unknown, but studies submitted to the EPA by DuPont between 2006 and 2013 show it caused tumors and reproductive problems in lab animals.
CBS affiliate WWAY asked Adams, "Given your connection to DuPont, do you know anybody that works at the Chemours plant?"
Or DuPont?"
"How long has it been in the river?
The company also told CBS News it continues to believe that emissions from its plant have not impacted the safety of drinking water.