{"id":274680,"date":"2026-02-09T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:07:07","slug":"oahu-residents-asked-to-conserve-water-amid-power-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274680\/","title":{"rendered":"Oahu residents asked to conserve water amid power disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) is asking all Oahu customers to conserve water immediately due to current and potential power outages island-wide related to severe weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">These outages may affect BWS facilities and their ability to pump and distribute water across the island, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/02\/05\/first-alert-weather-days-issued-saturday-sunday-heavy-rain-thunderstorms-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/02\/05\/first-alert-weather-days-issued-saturday-sunday-heavy-rain-thunderstorms-approach\/\">Hawaii News Now declared Sunday and Monday First Alert Weather Days<\/a> with potentially damaged winds, heavy rainfall, and isolated thunderstorms possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hawaiian Electric crews and contractors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/downed-trees-outages-reported-across-hawaii-amid-severe-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/02\/08\/downed-trees-outages-reported-across-hawaii-amid-severe-weather\/\">responded to outages on Oahu, Hawaii Island and in Maui County<\/a> overnight Saturday into Sunday morning, many caused by trees and weather-related debris blown into power lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customers are asked to conserve water and limit use to essential needs such as cooking, drinking, and personal hygiene. Please postpone non-essential uses, including car washing, irrigation, and other outdoor water use, until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) is asking all Oahu customers to conserve water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[154916,154915,273,111,139,69,42630,147,376],"class_list":["post-274680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-board-of-water-supply","tag-conserve","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-power-outages","tag-science","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}