Richmond and Henrico lifted the boil water advisory on Saturday afternoon. Why it matters: That means the city has drinkable water for the first time in nearly five days. Henrico has gone three days without it.

Virginia officials lifted a boil-water advisory in Richmond on Saturday, days after problems caused by a winter storm hit the city’s century-old water production plant.

Henrico County officials have lifted the county’s boil water advisory after nearly three days. The end of the advisory came Saturday just after 11:30 a.m., after the second of two bacteriological test