YORK- Maintenance work on the primary water well at Nebraska's Correctional Center for Women has hampered the York facility's access to clean drinking water. Officials have advised staff and inmates to only consume water from the purified water sources located in "many places" throughout the 275-bed facility, including in all of the housing units, as the prison temporarily draws water from a secondary well.

The maintenance work is expected to be over within a week, but in the meantime, the state is providing bottled water for drinking in areas where there is no water filtering system, the spokeswoman, Dayne Urbanovsky, said. He said water from the alternative well is safe for showering and handwashing and that all water meant for consumption, including in the kitchen, has been filtered by a process called reverse osmosis that separates water molecules from other substances.

It's unclear how many of the facility's water access points offer the filtered water. Multiple women incarcerated at the facility have said that prison staff members posted signs on taps and faucets throughout the prison warning that the water isn't safe to consume, but inmates are still expected to use the water to shower.

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