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After a large water main break on Saturday left Boston without drinkable tap water for three days, Harvard schools and affiliates in the city are reflecting on their responses to the water crisis.
He also addressed “a very weird phenomenon” in which certain city employees, such as police officers and firefighters, who get paid on Thursdays will account for another $1.2 million increase in the budget due to a 53rd pay week in fiscal year 2011.
As a result of the potential water contamination—which would not have affected Cambridge’s water supply—the state issued a “boil-water” order for 30 Boston-area communities.
An administrator at the Harvard School of Public Health, which was in the process of clearing water taps and reconnecting ice machines yesterday, said that the crisis had been a good test for the school’s emergency management team.
The Harvard University Department of Athletics brought in Cambridge water for athletes in its facilities in Allston, according to Director of Athletic Communications Kurt K. Svoboda.