Henrico County issued a boil water advisory Wednesday afternoon, on the third day of a regional water emergency triggered by a power outage at Richmond’s water treatment plant on Monday, Jan. 6 caused by a winter storm.

Henrico County officials are hopeful that the county’s boil water advisory will be lifted by Saturday afternoon, assuming that a series of water quality tests come back clean Friday and Saturday. Henrico Public Utilities officials late Thursday learned that their first round of required tests,

"There there could've been better communication was the notification that we received from the city of Richmond. It took a number of hours to get that information and we were not able to fill our system as much as we would've liked to,

In an update provided by Henrico County at around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, officials said the entire county is under a boil water advisory until further notice. This comes

Water seemingly made a comeback in Richmond's faucets overnight Wednesday into Thursday — for real this time. The big picture: Most Richmonders had been without running water for more than two days, while residents in parts of Henrico and Hanover had been without service for around 24 hours as of Wednesday afternoon.

News Thursday afternoon that the city of Richmond has restored full water pressure citywide means that Henrico residents who have been dealing with little or no water pressure are closer to a full return to normal.

With Southern California ablaze, the lack of water leaves many wondering, why not use ocean water to combat fires? For former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris,

The boil water advisory has now extended to Goochland County. In a Facebook post, Goochland County issued a boil water advisory for its utility customers in the East End of the county. According to Goochland,

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a boil water advisory for areas within the Arapahoe County town of Byers Tuesday.