‘This is a crisis’: Marlin’s water woes continue--four days without water

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MARLIN -- More than 100 Marlin residents vented their frustrations Monday morning as city officials offered few answers about when the four-day drought with no city water service might end.

Marlin Mayor Elizabeth Nelson tried to lighten the mood at the packed Marlin Civic Center by paraphrasing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by saying, “This is our situation: We have water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.”

The crowd received the joke with the same enthusiasm they have had for having no water or very little water pressure since Thanksgiving evening.

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The water dilemma has affected about 6,000 Marlin residents, plus a nursing home, a hospital, two prison units, the county jail and schools.

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1. That totally sucks

Those poor townspeople.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Actually it is a series of calamities that has hit the town.

Last month the police chief was working a night job as a security guard at a club in Temple when he was shot and later died. The school district also narrowly avoided being shut down by the Texas Education Agency for poor academic progress among the students. The school district has had several changes in superintendents and the state is monitoring it closely.

The town is near Waco in the cotton belt Central Texas. The population is about 25% black and 18% Hispanic while the average income isn't much above the poverty level. The town decreased about 10% in population between the 2000 and 2010 census and has been bypassed by the major highway running in the area. The film "Infamous" with Sandra Bullock was shot around the run-down homes there in 2006.