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No running water at work.

Location: Alabama, USA

Came into work today to find out there has been no running water in the entire facility of over 150 employees (potentially even 200+, I don't know the exact number) for 2 days. No way to get water other than if we had brought our own, and even then we can't refill a bottle anyways.

All of the toilets are down and we have to fill buckets with water from large metal drums and dump them in the reservoir to be able to flush. There is no clean water to wash our hands with afterwards because all of the water drums are being utilized for flushing, they have been contaminated by the buckets. Most of us are just holding it in for our 12 hour shifts til we go home since we have no way to wash our hands after we use the bathroom.

I'm not sure how legal this is but I assume at minimum it has to be some kind of OSHA violation. I am looking for advice on what I should do in this situation? Doesn't sound like the water is going to come back any time soon and most people here are pretty pissed.

EDIT: They managed to finally get the water back running no thanks to OSHA or the health department. Now there is just water leaking from the ceiling in multiple locations!

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u/Level-Trick-5510 — 1 day ago