DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – It didn’t take long for residents to clean out shelves of bottled water at metro Atlanta stores following a massive water main break which shut down service for several hours Wednesday and prompted a Boil Water Advisory through the weekend.
Stores across the area were sold out, so where can DeKalb County residents get water?
Officials took steps to ensure hospitals and other care facilities have a backup plan.
While most hospitals have an emergency supply of water, the DeKalb County Emergency Management Director said her agency is ready to step in if necessary.
YOUR TURN: DeKalb County residents tell us if you see bottled water at stores Just a few miles away from the rupture of the 48-inch water main along Buford Highway just north of Interstate 285, the Wild Heaven Brewery was handing out water at its taproom all Wednesday evening.
The 400-foot well was designed to provide water for brewing beer, but it gave them a way to give back to their neighbors on Wednesday providing reliable drinking water.
The city of Decatur rolled-out its own water trucks.
A massive 6,000-gallon water truck was parked near downtown Decatur and officials filled up containers with drinking water for residents.
Decatur residents, with IDs and their own container in hand, spent Wednesday filling up with a two-gallon limit per adult.
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5 things to know about mandatory water restrictions and other measures as metro Atlanta remains in a drought.
Georgia officials are pleading with metro Atlanta residents to conserve water heading into the state’s prime summer months, saying they need to be mindful of their usage as the area faces a continuing stubborn drought and Atlanta’s warmest April on record.
Twelve counties remain in a Level 2 drought: Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Paulding and White.
Lake Lanier, which all 12 of those counties depend on as part of their water supply, also remains eight feet below its full water level.
Here’s what you need to know: Residents under Level 2 restrictions have to follow outdoor watering schedules that allow landscape watering up to two days a week, determined by odd and even-numbered addresses.
Even-numbered addresses and properties without numbered addresses may water on Wednesday and Saturday before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m. Odd-numbered addresses may water Thursday and Sunday before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m. Other allowable outdoor watering includes for new and replanted plants, seed or turf any time of day for 30 days after planting; personal food gardens any time of day; and drip irrigation, soaker hoses, handheld containers or hand-watering with a hose with automatic cutoff any time of day.
What’s not allowed: Washing hard surfaces such as streets and sidewalks; water for ornamental purposes such as fountains; non-commercial washing of vehicles; non-commercial pressure washing; and fundraising car washes.
While not required, conservation suggestions also include turning off the water while shaving or brushing teeth to save at least 100 gallons a week.
Fix leaky faucets as soon as you notice them.
A leak of 60 drips a minute wastes 192 gallons a month.

Metro Atlanta Remains In ‘Unusual’ Drought.
But not in metro Atlanta, most of which remains in a "Level 2" drought response.
Gainesville has gotten more than 20 inches less rain in the past year than a normal year.
The warm winter means more water has evaporated from the lake and from the soil and plants, said Bill Murphey, state climatologist and head meteorologist for Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division.
It’s not unusual to see lake levels get drawn down during the year, Harvey said, but around this time of year should be a wet season, when the lake refills.
That’s troubling, said Katherine Zitsch, natural resources manager at the Atlanta Regional Commission, because even during droughts the lake usually refills at least a bit.
“Sometimes it’s 10 feet in one winter, sometimes it’s 5 feet in one winter.
“This drought there is no upward trend.” Zitsch said this drought has taken the worst aspects of two previous droughts and combined them.
“The ’07 drought it was very dry in September-October-November, and this drought repeated that.
But what’s upstream of the reservoir is a very small watershed.” So Lake Lanier is like a huge tub that’s filled by a relatively small faucet, which, over the past year, has been turned down to just a trickle.