‘This is huge’: Councillor encouraging clean water donations to Bowness after major main break
[Excerpt] By Matt Scace
“This is huge,” Ward 1 Coun. Sonya Sharp told Postmedia outside the Bowness Community Centre, where the city’s emergency water supply was stationed. In a Thursday afternoon update, Alberta Emergency Alert wrote that supply levels have reached “a critical state” and was affecting the city’s ability to provide water to communities and ensure enough water is available for emergency fire suppression.
Sharp and community members were reaching out to seniors and people with mobility issues who would be unable to travel to pick up water. She also called on Calgarians to bring water to the Bowness Community Association, adding that grocery stores in the community were quickly running out of bottled water.
“We all came together in the flood, but this is just as important — people need drinking water to live. Anything anyone can do in Calgary to support the community would be great,” Sharp said.
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