Celebrate sewage-free rivers! The Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant turns 75 this month.

So long, bleachy-smelling drinking water: D.C. Water has announced that the city’s annual switch to a chlorine water disinfectant ends today.

This morning’s big entertainment news was the death of actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died due to heart failure at the age of 79. The actress, who will be well-remembered for her roles in classic films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, her passion for jewelry and her eight marriages, was also a tireless advocate for AIDS-related causes. In fact, you’ve likely walked past one part of Taylor’s charitable legacy several times — the Whitman-Walker Clinic named their treatment facility at 1701 14th Street NW in Taylor’s honor in 1993.

Spring has arrived, and with it comes the time when Washington’s water supply smells slightly like chlorine. It’s time yet again to clean out the city’s pipes — today, D.C. Water switches its disinfectant from chloramine to chlorine. This year’s chlorine treatment, which occurs every spring before the temperatures begin to warm up, will continue through May 2.