A Winnipeg says the city’s advice on dealing with brown water is as murky as the water itself.
Brad Lillie says he ran all the taps in his home for 40 minutes and the water remained brown. On Monday the city’s director of water and waste, Brenda Sacher, told Global News that homeowners need only run their taps for five minutes to clear the discoloured water, and that should cost only “25 cents.” She also recommended that homeowners use the discoloured water for gardening.
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“The bigger issue here, all of us, bath, wash, do laundry etc, and not everyone has the means to go out and buy bottled water, which I have been doing,” Lillie told Global News in an email Tuesday. “The water quality ruins clothes, stains the sinks, toilet and bathtub, requiring additional cleaning and expense. Pretty disgusting. Would you drink this?”
At city hall Wednesday, councillors will vote on a motion that would extend compensation for water problems to people whose laundry has been stained by the brown water.
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