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WESTON, Mass., May 3 (UPI) -- Boston area schools opened as usual Monday despite a water shortage caused by a rupture in a major pipeline, authorities said.
The unprecedented rupture occurred Saturday when a collar connecting two water pipes broke in the Quabbin Reservoir system, leaving an estimated 2 million people without drinking water.
The pipes were welded Sunday and the water flow restored, but it likely would be Tuesday or Wednesday before tests confirmed the water was safe to drink, Ria Convery of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority said Monday.
The break affected Boston and 29 of its suburbs.
Some schools asked students to bring bottled water Monday and many schools said they planned to forgo lunch items that required produce to be washed.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she was reviewing reports of unfair price increases by stores selling bottled water during the shortage, The Boston Globe reported.
"If we discover that businesses are engaging in price gouging, we will take appropriate legal action,'' Coakley said.
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