Students at Washington, D.C. schools left without clean drinking water due to COVID-19 policies

[rangerrebew]

Students at Washington, D.C. schools left without clean drinking water due to COVID-19 policies

10/11/2021 / By Cassie B.

Stringent COVID-19 policies have seen some Washington, D.C. school students going without clean drinking water. As part of a pandemic-related “health and safety measure,” the city has turned off the drinking fountains at its public schools. Unfortunately, they have not made sufficient backup plans to ensure that students and staff will not go thirsty.

A teacher at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, Bethany Rosera, told the Washington Free Beacon that although the school district had provided the school with water jugs, they ran out quickly and left students and teachers without any clean drinking water.

She said: “We ran out of water [on Tuesday] and our admin drove twice to Costco to fill up their own car with water in the middle of the day so we could get through the end of the day and have some for [Wednesday] if a delivery didn’t occur.”

https://www.waterwars.news/2021-10-11-washington-schools-no-drinking-water-covid.html

[EdinVA]

and dc folks think they want to be a state.... 

[PeteS in CA]

The only reason this wasn't news over a year ago - assuming it actually is news - is that DC schools were closed a year ago. I know the drinking fountains where I work were turned off something like a year and a half ago.