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Five months after Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, a small army of ardent loyalists is donating money and swarming social media to support the former governor.

The need to harden water infrastructure is an obvious, bipartisan issue. When Hurricane Laura struck a wide path of destruction across Louisiana in August, it knocked out 121 water systems and temporarily left hundreds of thousands of people without water. Another 150-plus water systems had disruptions that required people to boil their water for safe use. The February winter storm that dropped snow and ice across Louisiana walloped the systems again, leaving hundreds of thousands without potable water and hospitals trucking in water for patient care. William Daniel, director of Shrevep...

The City of Oakdale announced Friday that it has been awarded a $3.8 million loan through the Louisiana Office of Public Health’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund (DWRLF) program to make improvements to its local water system, thereby ensuring quality drinking water for its customers.

Special to USA Today Network View Comments BATON ROUGE — The Cadeville Water District in Ouachita Parish has been awarded $1.46 million by the Louisiana Department of Health’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program to consolidate with the Robinson Chapel Water System in Jackson Parish to provide safer, quality drinking water to customers in the service area. According to a news release from the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund, customers will see a reduction in their monthly water rates with the consolidation. Currently, Robison Chapel water customers are paying $25 per month, but...

/ This story was co-published with the Louisiana Illuminator. As far back as Fannie King, 39, can remember, there have been problems with the drinking water in Tallulah, a small city in northeastern Louisiana. King's experienced water outages, discolored water and backups that cause the water to drain slowly. “As long as I’ve been living, there’s always been a complaint about what they were going to do,” she said. “The piping system that runs through Tallulah is so old in the residential areas.” The problems with Tallulah's drinking water system are not unique, but they’re amon...