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By Alex Samuels Texas Tribune Feb 17, 2021 First Texans lost their power. Now, they’re losing their potable water. After enduring multiple days of freezing temperatures and Texans dripping faucets to prevent frozen pipes from bursting, cities across the state warned residents on Wednesday that water levels are dangerously low and may be unsafe to drink. They’re asking Texans to boil tap water for drinking, cooking, brushing their teeth and for making ice — as residents have been struggling to maintain power and heat while an unprecedented winter storm whips across t...

While about half a million Texans continue to fight off cold temperatures from Winter Storm Uri without power, many homes are experiencing water supply issues as levels are dangerously low and may be unsafe to drink. 

The Texas power grid is improving. But days of outages have caused heat, water and food shortages The widespread power outages in Texas improved overnight even as they caused serious, cascading issues with the state’s supply of heating, water, food and medicine. Power was still down for about 390,000 Texas customers as of Thursday afternoon — well below the over 3 million outages a day earlier, according to Poweroutage.us. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the state’s power grid, said in a statement Thursday morning it had made “significant progress” ...

Nearly 2 million people were still without power early Thursday in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the US, with some facing water shortages as a deadly winter cold spell that pummeled the southeastern part of the country headed east.

TEXAS snow storm and freezing cold weather has killed at least 21 people, with widespread electricity and power blackouts over the past few days. Health officials have now warned seven million people in the US state that their tap water may not be safe, and it should be boiled before drinking.