Vancouver recovering from water crisis

The Vancouver area was starting to recover Saturday from a crisis that threatened the city's lifestyle and an entire industry: a lack of coffee. A letter in the Vancouver Sun called it the worst day in the city's history.

About two million people were warned to boil their drinking water, after brown, murky water began flowing from the city's taps following last week's storms. The warning meant the city's coffee shops couldn't brew coffee drinks. Crisis peaked when a fight broke out at a Costco over a shortage of bottled water.

Apparently the dirty water was caused by extreme rainfall that flooded the city's supply, which isn't thoroughly treated. Many Vancouverites blamed the city's decision years ago to allow logging inside its watershed.