{"id":120412,"date":"2025-08-30T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:22:08","slug":"boil-water-advisory-issued-for-city-of-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120412\/","title":{"rendered":"Boil water advisory issued for City of Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Rice, Minnesota, have issued a citywide boil water advisory due to a loss of water pressure.<\/p>\n<p>A water main break on Thursday resulted in a dip in water pressure, increasing the risk of exposure to bacteria, viruses and parasites, according to a notice on the city\u2019s website. Now, city staff are working to isolate and repair the main break.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was expected to be resolved \u201cwithin 36 hours,\u201d though it was not immediately clear what time the water main break occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Rice residents are asked to use bottled or boiled water for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth and making ice until given the all clear.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on safe drinking water protocols, refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/communities\/environment\/water\/docs\/com\/dwaguidance.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this guide<\/a> from the Minnesota Department of Health\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/health\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/rice\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rice<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/water\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Water<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in Rice, Minnesota, have issued a citywide boil water advisory due to a loss of water pressure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,97,17641,79,282],"class_list":["post-120412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-rice","tag-science","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}