Hospitals, charities and churches all look to lawmakers, he said, in addition to federal agencies.
Doggett, who has represented portions of Austin in Congress since 1994, is a veteran of dealing with bureaucrats through other crises.
“The main problem is the desperation of people about water right now,” he said.
Doggett said he had been in frequent contact with FEMA and Travis County Judge Andy Brown about getting truckloads of bottled water to Austin after he learned Thursday that the supplies were stuck in a staging area in Fort Worth. And he helped get the word out to local officials about the dangers of low water pressure in hospitals.
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Volunteers load water into cars at a water distribution at Austin Community College s Pinnacle Campus on Sunday.
Austin Water lifted the boil-water notice for most customers on Monday. But thousands of people in Austin and Travis County still remain under a boil-water notice or are without water completely.
KUT s Nadia Hamdan spoke with Travis County Judge Andy Brown to get an update on the county s relief efforts so far.
Travis County Judge Andy Brown: We ve been working on trying to get water from around the country, from as far away as Florida. And we have got it coming in. We re working on the pod distribution system for today, right now, to make sure that we re getting bottled water to everyone.
Austin Water s emergency use restrictions were lifted on Wednesday morning. Author: KVUE News staff Updated: 9:09 AM CST February 24, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Travis County Judge Andy Brown had previously issued an order banning car wash services until Thursday, Feb. 25, because of low water supply throughout Travis County. Judge Brown rescinded that order on Feb. 24. The original ban came as Austin Water had issued emergency water use restrictions prohibiting outdoor water use.
On Tuesday, Austin Water said the water restrictions would be lifted on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 8 a.m.
Emergency order prohibiting car washing lifted at 8am today- thank you for holding off on washing cars until @AustinWater got sufficient water pressure pic.twitter.com/FZGOr2ZyRz Travis County Judge Andy Brown (@TravisCoJudge) February 24, 2021
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