Weather woes continue for a Henderson County woman.
"I’m just at a loss of words," said storm victim Mary Dalton.
"Mother Nature at her fury just opened up and took my only access to home."
Mary Dalton is pleading for help after last week’s damaging rainstorms left her without clean drinking water and limited access to her own home.
She walks more than 100 yards back and forth from her house, and up a hill to her car, stuck in a problem area.
It’s been like this for days.
She’s been drinking water out of jugs and is forced to carry all of her groceries and other belongings, sometimes in the dark, over rusted pipes and boulders.
She says she’s tried contacting multiple agencies and public officials for help, to no avail.
Tonight at 10 and 11 we’ll have more about Dalton’s efforts to get help, and hear what the Red Cross has to say about anyone with storm damage.

Statesman-Journal A Keizer woman complained to officials Friday after she and her 8-month-old son unintentionally drank tap water at a Salem sushi restaurant.
But under the advisory, health officials have warned pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under the age of 6 to not drink or cook with tap water.
After getting up to leave, she noticed other customers were drinking bottled water.
She asked the waitress whether she’d been given bottled water.
The waitress replied that no, customers were given tap water unless they request bottled water.
Horrified, Parr realized she’d let her baby drink contaminated water.
Officials said the city does not provide any public health enforcement involving restaurants.
Instead complaints are directed to the Marion County Health Department and Oregon Health Authority.
Restaurants are not required to take specific precautions, but experts are available to advise restaurant owners on how best serve uncontaminated water.
More: Salem water crisis: What if you drink the tap water during the advisory?

Operations were humming at Salem and Turner water stations installed in response to low levels of toxins found in the city drinking water.
Over three hours, councilors grilled city staff members on why they decided to wait until Tuesday to disclose to the public the city’s water was contaminated.
Salem’s water crisis drew questions and criticism from some of Oregon’s state and congressional lawmakers.
The advisory level for healthy adults is 3 parts per billion and for vulnerable populations — children under 6 years of age and people with weak immune systems — is 0.7 parts per billion.
The results received May 25 spurred a same-day meeting at 1 p.m. of city officials including Public Works Director Peter Fernandez.
"The decision after the meeting was that we were — regardless of what the next sample might show — we were within that 10-day health advisory" period and didn’t issue a public alert.
"Even today, we’re still (within) that 10-day health advisory for vulnerable populations," Fernandez said.
We need timely access to critical information.
To that end, Courtney told leaders of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management and Oregon Health Authority to expect a hearing on emergency preparedness this September.
In addition, the water advisory and possibility of future toxic algae blooms, along with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal that would draw down Detroit Lake, might place Salem’s longstanding water supply in jeopardy.

Statesman-Journal A Keizer woman complained to officials Friday after she and her 8-month-old son unintentionally drank tap water at a Salem sushi restaurant.
But under the advisory, health officials have warned pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under the age of 6 to not drink or cook with tap water.
After getting up to leave, she noticed other customers were drinking bottled water.
She asked the waitress whether she’d been given bottled water.
The waitress replied that no, customers were given tap water unless they request bottled water.
Horrified, Parr realized she’d let her baby drink contaminated water.
Officials said the city does not provide any public health enforcement involving restaurants.
Instead complaints are directed to the Marion County Health Department and Oregon Health Authority.
Restaurants are not required to take specific precautions, but experts are available to advise restaurant owners on how best serve uncontaminated water.
More: Salem water crisis: What if you drink the tap water during the advisory?

Because of nitrate levels, the school has been using bottled water since January of this year.
Jerry Brown has asked the Legislature to enact a statewide tax on drinking water to fix wells and treatment systems in distressed communities.
Residents and businesses would pay a tax on their monthly water bills, while agriculture would contribute through taxes on fertilizer purchases and fees paid by dairy farmers and feedlot operators.
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In the Valley, 185,000 residents are served by water systems deemed out of compliance by the state water board.
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Water problems, however, aren’t limited to the San Joaquin Valley.
The school plans on installing a new well and treatment system, funded with state grants, by the end of summer.
The Association of California Water Agencies, which represents the big urban suppliers, is trying to kill the bill.
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Because of nitrate levels, the school has been using bottled water since January of this year.
Jerry Brown has asked the Legislature to enact a statewide tax on drinking water to fix wells and treatment systems in distressed communities.
Residents and businesses would pay a tax on their monthly water bills while agriculture would contribute through taxes on fertilizer purchases and fees paid by dairy farmers and feedlot operators.
In the Valley, 185,000 residents are served by water systems deemed out of compliance by the state water board.
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Water problems, however, aren’t limited to the San Joaquin Valley.
The school plans on installing a new well and treatment system, funded with state grants, by the end of summer.
Since 2014, it also has disbursed $43 million in Proposition 1 water-bond funds for community water tanks, filtration systems and other upgrades.
The Association of California Water Agencies, which represents the big urban suppliers, is trying to kill the bill.
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Efficient and better management of water resources is the key to provide a universal access to clean water and sanitation, according to professor Stefan Uhlenbrook, director of UNESCO Programme Office for Global Water Assessment.
The research carried out by the UN found that 2.1 billion people across the globe still lack access to safely managed drinking water while 4.5 billion people are still deprived of safely managed sanitation services.
The professor opined that the lack of access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services presents a global challenge to the civil engineers.
In his lecture delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Uhlenbrook presented findings from the evidence-based review to establish the global baseline status of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 6, which focuses on the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation.
Uhlenbrook revealed that all heads of UN member states have agreed that to achieve SDG6 it is necessary to implement integrated water resources management (IWRM), which would ensure that the water resources are shared effectively among many competing demands, including across country borders.
Currently, only 38% of countries across the globe have implemented medium-high IWRM in 2017/18.
Other countries have also suggested certain measures such as increasing water-use efficiency by reducing water losses by addressing leakages in municipal distribution networks, to achieve SDG 6.
ICE engineering knowledge director Nathan Baker said: “The ‘water goal’ is essential for progress on all other SDGs, with sustainable water management enabling social development, such as improving health and reducing poverty and promoting economic growth across many industries.
“Civil engineers are in a unique and privileged position to help achieve the UN SDGs and ICE is committed to doing all it can to help the engineering sector develop practical steps to tackle SDG 6.
“The time has come to turn words into action and ICE is facilitating the global debate on engineering solutions at a Global Engineering Congress in October this year.” Newsletter For all the latest pharmaceutical industry news, sign up for our regular updates.

As a proposed tax, the budget trailer bill would require a two-thirds vote by both the Assembly and the Senate in favor to pass.
Given the need to resolve this critical social issue as soon as possible, it’s understandable that supporters of the proposal are attracted to a new funding source.
But this problem can be solved without a tax on water.
There are better approaches.
A package of funds comprised of ongoing federal safe drinking water funds, voter-approved general obligation bonds – two of which are on the ballot this year – proposed assessments related to nitrates in groundwater that are already part of the legislation, and a limited amount of state general fund dollars already collected by the state makes sense.
The amount of general fund money needed for this alternative is less than one-10th of 1 percent of the governor’s proposed budget.
This funding package is a far more practical way to make safe drinking water accessible for all Californians, without burdening Californians with another tax.
Another alternative is the creation in state law of an irrevocable safe and affordable drinking water trust that would establish a perpetual source of funding.
Other viable alternatives include lease revenue bonds or allocation of a percentage of Cap-and-Trade funding for safe drinking water.
Join me in opposing a drinking water tax and supporting more appropriate alternative funding solutions.

The city of Keizer says it’s willing to share its drinking water with Salem-area residents who’ve been warned by officials to not consume what comes out of their taps due to the discovery of low levels of algae toxin.
The water source for Keizer, located next to Salem, is separate from the recent algae bloom from the Detroit Reservoir, the city announced Wednesday.
Three water stations with 24-hour access have been opened at Keizer City Hall in the parking lot near Chalmers Jones Skate Park.
The Detroit Reservoir supplies water to the cities of Salem and Turner, as well as areas served by the Suburban East Salem Water District and Orchard Heights Water Association.
The city of Salem announced Tuesday that water testing last week found cyanotoxins and warned against children younger than 6, pets, anyone with poor health or immune systems, and others vulnerable people from drinking tap water.
City officials said the water is harmless to shower in and wash your hands or dishes in, as well as to clean or do laundry.
Drinking the water could cause symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea.
It can also lead to kidney and liver damage.
It’s not immediately clear when the advisory will be lifted.
Officials recommend bottled water as an alternative for drinking and cooking.

About 20 students walked around London’s downtown streets with two large buckets of water on Wednesday afternoon.
They called it a water walk to raise awareness about the scarcity of clean drinking water in developing countries.
Julianna Mereu, 17, is a student at Central secondary school and helped organize the walk alongside students in her school’s social justice club.
“It’s for the millions of people in developing countries that have to walk hours each day to get water,” Mereu said.
Students at the school have to hold two campaigns a year for Me to We.
Before they had the water walk, Mereu and her teammates in the social justice club researched what clean water access is like around the world.
Then, they decided what type of fundraiser or event they wanted to hold to raise funds and awareness.
She hopes even after she graduates, the water walk will continue to a point where it is no longer needed.
Kevin Wild, Central secondary school’s vice-principal said students organized the walk themselves and he’s glad to see students taking an initiative like this.
“And this is one of the global issues that’s prominent right now and there are things we can do to help.”