From the Daily Mail:
A massive chemical spill along a West Virginia river has triggered a tap water ban for hundreds of thousands of residents - shutting down schools, bars and restaurants and emptying stores of bottled water.
Residents were told to not bathe, brush their teeth or wash their clothes with tap water after 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, a foaming agent used in the coal preparation process, spilled on Thursday.
President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state on Friday, ordering federal aid as residents raced to stores to stock up on bags of ice and crates of bottled water.
The accident unfolded on the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia's capital and largest city, just upriver from the state's largest water treatment plant.
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