for the second day in a row, as many as 300,000 families in west virginia are being warned to stay away from the water. do not drink it. do not cook with it. do not wash clothes in it. do not take a bath in it. that is a warning you don t hear often in this country. don t drink the water. not only don t drink it, don t even touch it. don t do anything but flush it down your toilet. that is precisely the warning that s in effect right now for a nine-county swath of west virginia currently under a state of emergency. this after a chemical leak from the coal treatment plant into a river near the state capital. the chemical, 4 methycyclohexamethanol is used in coal and was leaking from tank on thursday. see the stuff as it comes