吉尔的祝福ED and TERRY WALLACE Associated Press
Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa improvised emergency water supplies after a water system outage left them high and dry for days amid scorching heat, even as utility crews scrambled Wednesday to restore normal service.
The city said在周一下午24英寸（61厘米）的主要部分破裂之后，165,000户家庭和企业的水龙头损失了压力或完全干燥。敖德萨的水处理厂在周三上午8点左右返回在线，但公用事业官员表示，完成“充电”过程可能需要12到14个小时，在此期间，工人在此期间慢慢将水添加到系统中以确保不再泄漏。
周三，德克萨斯州和美国大部分地区面临的温度接近敖德萨的100华氏度（38摄氏度）extremely hot and humid conditions. And while the city typically sees hot weather in June, the timing of the break made dealing with this week’s heat more difficult.
“I want to assure you that we’re utilizing every resource at our disposal to ensure that we get this community back to the way it was before this massive line break,” City Manager Michael Marrero said in a Facebook video posted Wednesday afternoon. He and Public Works Director Thomas Kerr again urged residents to boil tap water to kill any bacteria before consuming it.
Resident Nikki Friday told The Associated Press that the city was providing bottled drinking water and that people with wells were offering neighbors water from hoses. She also said tanker trucks had been parked around town to fill buckets with water.
“Drinking water has not been an issue,” Friday said. “We just need water to return to our daily lives and within the community.”
终身敖德萨居民琳达·赖特（Lynda Wright）表示，在她住在那里的五十多年中，整个城市没有丢失水服务。她说，她从米德兰（Midland）拿起水和冰，距离她的家15分钟车程。
赖特说，她在水罐中储存了可饮用的水，以洗手和刷牙，她的家人把房子挂在了她的财产上，以提供水冲洗厕所。
她说：“我们只是在（水）线上放了一条软管。”
Wright said she noticed water began running again around noon but that the pressure did not immediately return to regular strength.
The city, which is located about 330 miles (530 kilometers) west of Dallas, planned to distribute water to residents at Ector County Coliseum as well as deliver water to nursing homes. Water tankers were placed strategically around the city to respond to any fires, said Deputy City Manager Phillip Urrutia.
“It’s an aging infrastructure that we’re seeing. It’s a cast iron pipe, and so those are typically more susceptible to breaks than other new technologies like PVC pipe that’s going in the ground,” he said.
赖特说，这座城市必须采取行动来防止另一次紧急情况。
她说：“我只是希望他们有点了解我们需要进入那里，我们需要检查这些线条并修复那些显示年龄和磨损迹象的线条。”
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美联社writer Ashley Duong in Chicago and Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this story.
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