By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

The number of Texans who are living with a boil-water advisory has declined by roughly 15,000 … or thereabouts.

That is the estimated population of Princeton in Collin County, where my wife and I live and which issued such an advisory when the city’s water treatment plant went down during the worst of the massive snowstorm that blanketed the state.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality says the city has done what it should to make the tap water safe to consume. That’s good news, right? Right!

The TCEQ recommends we run the water for two minutes before using it. Hey, we can do that.

I just wanted to share this bit of cheer with you because we’ve all been deluged — no pun intended — with a torrent of misery brought by Mother Nature and worsened by the mismanagement of the state’s massive electricity grid.

We’ve got a way to go before we are totally free of the agony. It’s good to acknowledge that we are able to take baby steps toward that freedom.