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Reporting by the Houston Chronicle reveals city officials scrambled to respond to the two-day boil water notice that left schools closed in November.
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The boil water notice affected millions of Texans and led to a two-day shutdown of area schools and disrupted local business. Water experts say the incident should direct cities to look at their own water containment equipment and consider possible upgrades.
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The outage left about 165,000 people without water in Odessa and some surrounding areas. It has been attributed to a main line break in the city’s aging water system and comes amid a dayslong heat wave.
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Officials haven’t specified what caused the break, but say the broken line is about 60 years old.
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As Austinites emerged last week from three days of having to boil their tap water before drinking it, they and their elected officials had questions. Most notably: What happened?