Water gushes out of a broken water transmission line in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, June 1, 2024. Much of Atlanta, including all of downtown, has been without water since Friday afternoon after crews began work to repair breaks on transmission lines in the downtown area. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Workers try to fix a leaking water main junction on Monday, June 3, 2024, in Atlanta. Water pressure is returning to downtown Atlanta and nearby neighborhoods, after a water outage that began Friday. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens listens as crews continue to work on a broken main on West Peachtree Street in Midtown, with nearby residents warned of impacts to their water service as the crisis reached its fourth day Monday, June 3, 2024. Water had been gushing out of the broken main until Monday morning, when workers were seen pumping out water. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Water trickles out of a hose attached to a device that shuts off flow to a water main on Monday, June 3, 2024, in Atlanta. The device was one of several used to shut off flow to a leak that had gushed for more than two days in Atlanta's Midtown neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens speaks during a news conference, Monday, June 3, 2024, in Atlanta. A water outage shut down businesses and left faucets dry at many homes in the area. City officials say water was shut down as part of a successful effort to stanch the flow from a broken water main. It had been gushing a river into the streets since Friday night. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)