{"id":537458,"date":"2026-03-21T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:09:08","slug":"board-of-water-supply-asks-oahu-residents-to-conserve-water-for-essential-purposes-during-kona-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537458\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Water Supply asks Oahu residents to conserve water for essential purposes during Kona low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Board of Water Supply is urging all residents to conserve water and use it for essential purposes due to power outages affecting the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said to only use water for drinking, cooking, and hygiene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BWS said power outages are impacting the utility\u2019s entire water system serving the North Shore community from Waialua and Mokuleia to Kawela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said residents, especially those without power, should keep water use to an absolute minimum and should not fill containers at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BWS said the pumps need electricity to operate. During a power outage, the utility has a limited ability to pump water from its wells and other water sources into reservoirs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Until power can be restored, the water left in the reservoirs will be all that is available, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBy limiting water use, you will do your part to help your community have enough water for their needs during the outage,\u201d said BWS Manager and Chief Engineer Ernie Lau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The utility said that after power is restored, residents should continue to conserve water as the electrically powered pumps need time to replenish reservoirs to normal levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BWS said it is also working to restore water service to customers in Ahuimanu who have no water or low water pressure on Friday due to an earlier break on a property line at Valley of the Temples that drained the community\u2019s reservoir. They hope to restore service Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The Board of Water Supply is urging all residents to conserve water and use it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-537458","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\/537458","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=537458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}