The Advocate. May 22, 2024.
The scenes in Killian over the last month -- a failing water well, tanker trucks and pallets of bottled water -- have become worryingly common in recent years.
The small southeast Livingston Parish town was thrown into crisis when its lone water well, which serves about 1,000 people, failed with no backup. Town and parish officials were forced to scramble to provide safe drinking water for customers, who had complained of brown and silty water from their taps.
Killian's emergency affects only a small number of people. But there is little doubt the state finds itself in a drinking water crisis. A large number of mostly small, rural water systems, upon which........