JONES, Oklahoma – The town of Jones City is under a boil water advisory after E. coli was found in the water.
On Sunday, a community came together to help each other with this one basic but necessary need.
“Our neighbors really matter to us and we just want them to be safe,” said O’Neal.
On Sunday, members of the church jumped into action.
The church is collecting donations of bottled water to hand out to anyone in need.
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is working with the town to uncover how the bacteria contaminated the water supply.
“As long as you follow the directives that are set forth by the Public Works Department and by the DEQ, you should be fine.” Those directives include bringing water to a rolling boil for at least one minute before using or use bottled water.
“There’s some people here just can’t get out and get around and a four-dollar case of water is a big deal for a lot of people,” he said.
These are good people; the people of Jones are good people.” This issue could take up to two weeks to resolve but the community will be updated through flyers and social media on when the water is once again safe.
If you need water, you can contact the First United Methodist Church at (405) 399-2926 or on Facebook.

In its new report "Take Back the Tap," Food and Water Watch researchers look at the booming business of bottled water, which surpassed soda in sales in 2016.
The group finds nearly 64 percent of bottled water comes from municipal taps and that it cost almost 2,000 times as much as tap water and four times as much as gasoline.
"It is much more the norm in other countries where you have to go buy bottled water because the safety systems aren’t there for tap water," she says.
"That’s not the case in most American cities.
Bottled-water companies contend their water is safer.
But she adds it can be difficult to get support for this idea.
"It’s hard to build that political will if people think that you buy water at the grocery store and you just have to go take care of it that way," she explains.
"We kind of undermine this sense of ownership and accountability for having a tap-water system that works for everybody."
The bottled-water industry has spent millions lobbying the U.S. Congress and federal regulators.
From 2014 to 2016, the industry spent nearly $29 million on in-house and hired lobbyists.

The bottled water industry has been exposed through research for spending billions on convincing Americans that bottled water is healthier than tap water.
This costs the average American household $16 billion per year.
According to the study “Take Back the Tap” conducted by Food and Water Watch: “Most people also do not realize that the drinking water that they can get from their tap for a fraction of the price of bottled water actually comes with more safeguards than bottled water, since the federal government requires more rigorous safety monitoring of municipal tap water than it does of bottled water.” About 64 percent of the water that comes in plastic bottles comes from sources of tap water.
Not only that, but bottled water is not good for the environment, as it requires plastic.
In 2016 alone, the bottled water industry used 4 billion pounds of plastic, which has the same energy input as 45 million barrels of oil.
This is extremely dangerous for our environment, especially considering the fact that some people throw their used bottled water outside- meaning that it can harm animals.
The study says that "when bottlers are not selling municipal water, they are pumping and selling common water resources that belong to the public, harming the environment, and depleting community water supplies.” Most of the people who are affected are those who do not have as much access to clean water, especially those with a lower socioeconomic status, people of color, and immigrants.
According to the article, “The report urges the passage of the Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability (WATER) Act, which would dedicate federal funds to renovate the nation’s public water infrastructure to ensure renewed public confidence in tap water, and avert a water affordability crisis.
I prefer drinking tap water.
Do you regularly buy water or drink it from the tap?