State officials on Thursday night planned to dispatch a "water buffalo" of potable water to the city of Helena-West Helena to address a water problem in the city, authorities said.
The Arkansas National Guard's water buffalo tanker would be deployed to help the city's water problems, LeTresha Woodruff, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Public Safety's Division of Emergency Management, said Thursday night.
Woodruff wasn't able to say what the exact nature of the water problem was.
A call Thursday night to Mayor Christopher Franklin requesting details on the water situation was not immediately answered.
Phillips County Judge Clark Hall verbally declared a disaster Thursday related to the city's water system, wrote Martin Rawls, District 8 justice of the peace for the county, in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.