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Google Maps Street View(BLANCO, Texas)  A tiny cattle and ranching town nestled in Central Texas is experiencing water supply woes so severe that it recently only had about a day s worth of water left.

The City of Blanco warned residents Friday night that a "very serious water emergency" had commenced. A small pipe break in the Texas Water Company s system stopped water deliveries to the city altogether, Blanco Mayor Mike Arnold wrote in an announcement posted to Facebook.

The Texas Water Company, which draws its water from the Canyon Lake Reservoir, had already been struggling to keep up with the city s water demands in the last several weeks, Arnold said, describing the pipe malfunction as "a common occurrence."

Without water coming in to replenish usage, the supply in the city s holding tank began to "rapidly decline," according to Arnold.

Officials estimated that the water in the tank would "run completely dry" b ....

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