Etats-Unis: une fuite chimique prive d'eau des centaines de milliers de personnes - Yahoo Actualités France
Etats-Unis: une fuite chimique prive d'eau des centaines de milliers de personnes - Yahoo Actualités France
A chemical leakage occurred Thursday in a river in West Virginia deprives water of hundreds of thousands of people in the center and south of the state of the eastern United States. "On January 9, a chemical leakage occurred in Freedom Industries and reached the Elk River, causing contamination of the water system of the Kanawha Valley distribution," writes on its website West Virginia American Water, which provides water to the inhabitants of those areas where the state of emergency was declared by the Governor Earl Tomblin. "Do not use water. Due to the nature of the contamination, the water should not be used for toilet flushing or the fight against the fire," warns West Virginia American Water. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, a local newspaper, the relation prohibits nearly 300,000 people, which the authorities have established drinking water distributions. "Our efforts will continue until we deal with the problem. Particular, we focus on the situation in hospitals, nursing homes and among the most vulnerable among us," assured the governor said in a statement Friday. The product that has leaked into the river, methylcyclohexane, is mainly used to clean coal impurities. According to the president of West Virginia American Water, Jeff McIntyre, quoted in the Charleston Daily Mail, the product could be contaminated up to 2,400 km of pipelines. Stressing the daily that its effects on the body were little known, Mr. McIntyre also pointed that it was very rare that it is spilled in water - which explains why his company does not know how much product can be found in the river safe for consumption, or how to get rid of.
AFP / AFP / File - A chemical leak occurred Thursday in a river in West Virginia deprives water of hundreds of thousands of people in the center and south of the state of the eastern United States
