Cathy Mabe of Spring Hill, West Virginia makes use of a couple of watering cans to carry water at a bring-your-own-containers water filling station in South CharlestonThrough Ann Moore CHARLESTON, W., Virginia (Reuters) – Tap water in Charleston, West Virginia, and neighborhood communities will stay dangerous in the coming days, an reliable mentioned on Saturday as residents spent a third day unable to wash, shower or drink from the faucet as a result of a chemical spill tainting the Elk River. As so much as 5,000 gallons (18,927 liters) of commercial chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or Crude MCHM, leaked into the river on Thursday, state officers mentioned. The spill got here from a tank belonging to Freedom Industries, a Charleston company that produces specialty chemical compounds for the mining, steel and cement industries, authorities mentioned. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin on Friday declared a state of emergency for nine counties, with the affected area together with the state capital of Charleston, the state's biggest metropolis.