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John Beezley loads several cases of water after learning that a boil water notice was issued for the entire city of Houston at Walmart on S. Post Oak Road in Houston on Nov. 27, 2022. Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP
HOUSTON—Houston officials lifted an order Tuesday that had called for more than 2 million people in the nation’s fourth-largest city to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.
The boil order had been in effect since Sunday, when a power outage at a purification plant caused pressure to drop.