Boil-water advisory in Socorro, New Mexico; bad example of clear and concise information

Posted: July 18th, 2010 - 7:28am by Doug Powell

I usually don’t write about boil-water advisories because they are unusually common and usually non-threatening. When people start getting sick, I get interested.

But I do have an interest in how boil-water advisories are communicated: Is the wording clear? Are the actions to be taken clearly stated? Are there graphics for those who can’t read? Is the advisory in multiple languages?

Socorro, New Mexico, home of the PhD pretty hair doctors and beauty salon (right), discovered E. coli in one of their four water wells and began distributing informational flyers. A local correspondent took a picture of the flyer and passed it along.


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Categories: Food Safety Culture
Tags: advisory, boil water, Communication, new meixico, Socorro

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Tom says:

This notice was posted on every door of every building on the New Mexico Tech campus, except the Library, which is one of the only buildings open to the public on weekends. How stupid was that?

Posted on July 18th, 2010 - 5:26pm

Anonymous says:

I wish that they would tell us what parts of town use each well...a simple map could have been sufficient.

Posted on July 19th, 2010 - 12:07pm

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