Houstonians say the city fumbled sounding the alarm on boil water notice

Eboni Davis and her boyfriend Jesse Holloway load water into their car outside an H-E-B grocery store in Houston on Nov. 28, 2022. (Credit: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune)

HOUSTON — Eboni Davis was at home Sunday night when she got a text saying she wouldn’t have work the following day at Yates High School because of a boil water notice in the nation’s fourth-most-populous city.

“I was like, ‘That’s crazy. How did they even let this happen?’” Davis said Monday afternoon, as she pushed a shopping cart carrying cases of water in the parking lot of an H-E-B grocery store, where there was a limit of two cases per customer. “There should be stuff in place so stuff like this wouldn’t happen, you would think, especially since the city has been established for a long time.”