NEW ORLEANS — In New Orleans, residents have grown accustomed to the now-familiar NOLA Ready alert warning them to boil their water “until further notice.” Twelve boil water advisories have been issued since January 2025.
A pattern of boil water advisories
This week in Uptown, a water main break left a lake along South Claiborne Avenue on Monday morning, forcing the street to close. The disruption, which left the intersection buckled, is just the latest in a string of water system failures across the city…