WILKES-BARRE -- That huge water main break in Kingston has forced some 10,000 homes and businesses to boil their water before they drink it.
The water boil advisory issued Thursday comes as crews continue to make repairs to the massive pipe.
Crews are still working to fix the broken water pipe, but water is back on for almost everyone in the Wyoming Valley.
Pennsylvania American Water says right now only 25 homes in the borough of Luzerne are still without water.
But people in several communities are being told if they have water, boil it before using it.
It's been a long three days for many in and around Kingston. About 6,600 homes and business have had water turned off at some point this week, and now 10,000 are being told to boil their water.
It's all because a 30-inch main broke along Mercer Avenue early Tuesday morning.
Frustration has built for days as people like Joyce Barber have been coming to water tankers, filling up jugs and using the water to flush toilets, wash some dishes, and just get by.
Now the American Red Cross has stepped in, opening the West Side Vo-Tech near Pringle as a place people can come and take a shower.
All the while, Pennsylvania American Water crews continue working around the clock to finish the repair on this massive water main break.
"Watch, our water bills will go up to get all this fixed now," said Barber. "No, I'm not happy about it at all."
Just as crews believe they are close to finishing the repairs in Kingston, water was flowing down some streets in Wilkes-Barre as a valve on a four-inch line on New Grant and Chapel Streets sprung a massive leak.
Just two blocks away from that, another valve has also started leaking on a 12-inch main.
"Everything seems to be busting up, so where is the good thing about all of this confusion that they've caused for the whole summer?" asked Kathy Evans of Wilkes-Barre.
So far people in Wilkes-Barre have not been affected by the leaking water valves there. But that is, in part, because crews from Pennsylvania American Water won't start repairing those leaking water valves in Wilkes-Barre until they finish the work on the water main break in Kingston.
"Let them warn us a day or two before they come and let us get what we need so we can have it. Because there are a lot of senior citizens and a lot of handicap people that do need this water."
Evans lives near the leaking valves in Wilkes-Barre and is hoping for a heads up, if the water will need to be turned off to make repairs there.
Crews won't start working on the water issues in Wilkes-Barre until the broken main in Kingston is repaired. They hope to have that done by Thursday night.
But once repairs are complete, the water company says it will take another 12 hours to fill up the pipe and get water service back to normal.