By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — States slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Broken water pipes brought on by record-low temperatures have created a shortage of clean drinking water, shut down airports and left hospitals scrambling. Texas authorities ordered 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation's second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it because low water pressure could have allowed bacteria to seep into the system. A man died at an Abilene health care […]
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