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AUSTIN, Texas – Residents of the Texas capital have been ordered to boil their tap water before drinking after the floods of recent weeks that filled the lakes, fed with silt, mud and debris.
The city of Austin said Monday in a statement that the water needed to be filtered and treated before it was safely consumed. There is no indication of bacterial infiltration.
More than one million Austin Water customers have been asked to boil water for human consumption, cooking and making ice, and to avoid drinking fountains.
The boiling water advisory sparked a rush of bottled water in grocery stores such as H-E-B, where shelves were emptied of their supplies.
Mayor Stever Adler said, "The unprecedented rainfall and runoff throughout our lake system has simply exceeded our treatment capacity.
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