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The city's public
works department was working to restore water to households
after a weather-related issue at one treatment facility and a
broken valve at another facility temporarily caused an outage,
the city said on a Facebook post late Thursday night.
"All repairs have been made and service is being restored to the
system," the city said in the post.
A boil water notice was issued for the entire system and
customers were asked to limit their water usage until Friday
morning, the city said.
The capital city of Mississippi of about 170,000 people, like
the rest of the region, was inundated over the last few days
with heavy rains and was under a National Weather Service flood
warning until Friday morning and a flash flood watch until
Saturday.
Other parts of Mississippi, along with parts of Arkansas, Texas,
Louisiana and Tennessee, were also under flood warnings early
Friday morning after more than a foot of rain fell in the U.S.
South over the last few days.
The heavy downpours killed at least four people this week and
prompted evacuations and rescues.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee)
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