{"id":524836,"date":"2026-03-15T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524836\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:37:08","slug":"water-not-safe-for-consumption-in-roberts-city-officials-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524836\/","title":{"rendered":"Water not safe for consumption in Roberts, city officials warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ROBERTS \u2014 Residents of the city of Roberts are being told not to drink any tap water \u2014 even boiled tap water \u2014 until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Roberts issued an urgent notice on Saturday afternoon warning residents that the water coming to their homes may not be safe to drink. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA significant loss of water pressure has occurred throughout the city due to recent power fluctuations and outages, which may have compromised the safety of the water supply,\u201d the notice explains.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders say residents should use bottled water for all consumption and hygienic needs. The notice specifically says not to boil tap water either, as \u201cboiling is not effective and may increase risk,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Power has been restored to the water system, the city says, but further testing is required to make sure it is safe to drink. They expect that to be completed in two to five days.<\/p>\n<p>For updates, residents can check <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofrobertsidaho.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the city\u2019s website<\/a> and social media channels, or call 208-228-3220.<\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBERTS \u2014 Residents of the city of Roberts are being told not to drink any tap water \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-524836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524836","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=524836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}